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Because of the undertone that has developed in my last thread, I thought I would make it formal.............

What do you consider to be the UGLIEST warbird?

I think it will be a toss up as weather the British or the French get the highest number of nominations. :roll: Feel free to defend any aircraft you feel has unjustly maligned.

And for the first nomination I would like to submit the Potez 75

Look here if you dare................

http://www.1000aircraftphotos.com/Contr ... e/1968.htm
or here.............

http://www.fortunecity.com/tattooine/fa ... tez75.html

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Imagine riding this bad boy into combat in 1940...dispensing death to the Hun while entertaining guests in the downstairs, four-seasons room!

And just so you don't think I'm picking on the Frogs, my silver cup goes to the Fairey Barracuda.

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Aggghhhhhhh! My eyes!


PT-19 and the PT-23 are ugly in my opinion.

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Trey Carroll wrote:
PT-19 and the PT-23 are ugly in my opinion.


OHHHHHHHHH! I can see this is going to get messy. :supz:



:minigun: :enforcer:

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I nominate the Blackburn Roc.

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P-26..

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The P-26? No way...that's one of the neater looking aircraft!
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And I guess it does qualify as a warbird since it first flew in 1947 (as far as I can tell)

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Is this catagory limited or is it open to all, observation ,Fighter, Bomber? Why not a survey for each catagory?
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Jiggersfromsphilly wrote:
Is this catagory limited or is it open to all, observation ,Fighter, Bomber? Why not a survey for each catagory?


Tricky, I think I will leave it as it is but people are welcome to put in multiple nominations with notes such as " I think this is the uglyist bomber/obs/fighter/etc that has ever seen the light of day and the designer should have been shot blah blah etc etc"

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Early running tally.

British - 5
French - 2
USA - 2
Italian - 1
German - 1

I think thats because the Brits are all sleeping at the moment and not around to defend their honour (lets hope the Flypast board doesn't get a whiff of this as there will be pipes and slippers everywhere. :twisted: :union: )

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