Ugly Birds

[Elwyn]

It may not be quite the ugliest but the Budd Conestoga definitely deserves a mention here.
http://www.daveswarbirds.com/usplanes/photos/c-93.jpg

[RickH]

Ah the Budd Conestoga,... still shiny after all these years !

[AvroAvian]

It looks like it's about to take a dump!!

[tom d. friedman]

nothing russian???? they rate up their in the fugly catagory!!! french close 2nd.

[hairy]

Now this thread has started to die, I think its time for a talley.............

SHOCK RESULT!!

The country resposible for more asthetically deficent designs than any other is..........................

...............Drum roll please..............................

THE USA!

Reults are as follows:
USA -17
GB - 10
France - 5
Italy - 3
Germany - 2
Switzerland - 1

[dhfan]

The French would have won hands down, but I can't be the only one that doesn't want to see pictures of even more 1930s French aircraft.

[PhantomAce08]

Keep in mind how how many good designs the US had. We may have more in this tally, but of course not all of the "ugly designs" of the other countries have been explored.

[bdk]

The country resposible for more asthetically deficent designs than any other is..........................

...............Drum roll please..............................

THE USA!

This comes from a guy with a photo of a fairey as an avatar...

[hairy]

[/quote]This comes from a guy with a photo of a fairey as an avatar... [/quote]

Its actually an Ilyushin il-2.

Speaking of which heres some late Russian entries.

http://www.airliners.net/open.file/0788490/L/ - surely this is THE ugliest. I want it to stick in my front yard(US)/garden(UK) to scare children and nuns.

http://www.tupolev.ru/English/Picture.asp?PubID=1291

http://www.tupolev.ru/English/Picture.asp?PubID=1289

http://www.tupolev.ru/English/Picture.asp?PubID=1271 - kinda cute.......

http://www.tupolev.ru/English/Picture.asp?PubID=1285

http://www.tupolev.ru/English/Picture.asp?PubID=1353 - The ugliest turboprop?

http://www.antonov.com/about/an-2f.xml - What the @#*# is holding the tail on.

Last edited by hairy on Sun Nov 05, 2006 11:29 pm, edited 7 times in total.

[hairy]

I now give you the shorts Seamew and the Avro Bison.

http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/attachme ... tid=297859

[Punisher05]

Well wait, the first shot isn't actually an aircraft but a ground effect device. Granted, it's ugly as sin but is it an airplane?

[Cking]

The question is, if you parked one of these aircraft at Oshkosh, would you get a bigger crowd around it than the crowd around "another" silver P-51?
Didn't the Amjet Fairy Gannet (no oil painting I admit) cause a huge crowds one year? Granted they were all saying "WHAT THE...........!"
Any way as my mother used to say to me "you're not ugly you're SPECIAL"

Rgds Cking

P.S. The result is typical! Just as we Brits think we have one over on you Yanks you pull the X-32 out of the bag! A plane so ugly that when it was born the Doctors slapped it's mother!

[oz rb fan]

how about the ryan darkshark or beech grizzelly

[Richard W.]

I think it's a fascinating design, but the Do 335 is UGLY!

[Jan]

I really do think the DFW T.28 is a candidate. http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/attachme ... tid=798109

Regards,

Jan