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by **Charl** » Wed Mar 14, 2007 9:45 pm

You funny bunnies with the Guppy and the like...
leads to the next obvious poll.
Not going to say what it is, but Zolt's Guppy is a strong candidate
AgTruk
An24 barely qualifies as an aircraft, let alone ugly.

by **Naki** » Wed Mar 14, 2007 9:51 pm

Mine would be the A380 and the Airtruck heres some photos to enjoy of the lovely Airtruck in both its NZ built version and its Australian cousin.

by **ZÃƒÂ¶ltuger** » Wed Mar 14, 2007 10:10 pm

not a fan of the 747SP, or the de-havilind comet.
Beech 1900D looks like it was designed by a person with a fetish for additional wing surfaces
Fairchild Metro III

by **Charl** » Wed Mar 14, 2007 10:13 pm

Naki wrote:the lovely Airtruck in both its NZ built version and its Australian cousin.

Aww it's kyoot, just wait til it grows up.
There's going to be a Russian in here, mind you Antonov is Ukraine isn't it?
Gaze upon the An-2
http://www.airliners.net/info/stats.main?id=33

by **Charl** » Wed Mar 14, 2007 10:17 pm

ZÃƒÂ¶ltuger wrote:Beech 1900D looks like it was designed by a person with a fetish for additional wing surfaces

Y'know you took the thought out of my mind, but I held back because the Trolly-bashing forum is meant to be the other one. :ph43r:

C'mon Andrew, let's hear your nomination for ugly aeroplane, mate!

by **Naki** » Wed Mar 14, 2007 10:22 pm

Yep Antonov is Ukranian - okay I am going to go all obscure again heres my no 1 vote for an ugly aircraft - a jet (!) ag aircraft from Poland, the Mielec M-15

by **hinch** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 4:54 am

PZL M-15.

it has to be.

by **ronindanbo** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 5:54 am

The PZL-106A Kruk and definitly the Let L-410

by **ooOO00OOoo** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 6:53 am

A380 is SOO Ugly

Are those photos real or photoshoped, who build aircraft that ugly???

by **scon** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 7:13 am

A380 (or almost anything airbus)
Bluga
Aero Spacelines 377SGT Super Guppy Turbine 9 is the worst see it here
See it here

by **ardypilot** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 7:14 am

Transavaia Airtruck and Airbus Beluga!

PS. The 1900d looks loverly from some angles, compleatly ugly from others. It's a love/hate relationship :lol:

by **Charl** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 7:23 am

scon wrote:A380 (or almost anything airbus)
Bluga
Aero Spacelines 377SGT Super Guppy Turbine 9 is the worst see it here
See it here

Actually we should probably discard the modified aircraft, as it's virtually a given that you will end up with a sow's ear.
Even if you couldn't make up your mind about the Comet, BAE guarantees you will with the Nimrod

EDIT: One of the Russian helicopters maybe? Ooh how about the Kamov Werewolf?

And althought the Brits are well-represented in the MBA above, they've come up with some zingers.
How about the Pterodactyl which looks like a plane crash?

by **nzav8tor** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 8:19 am

Skyvan is a pretty awful bit of kit.
How bout that Eagle 150, that thing has so many lift and aerodynamic devices to make it work properly the designers should have just accepted it was never mean't to fly...

The old axiom, if it looks right it'll fly right stands true in most cases, hmm, makes you wonder just how badly some of these machine fly!
Although the Agtruck was a top performer for its role.

But the F117 Stealth Fighter is completely fly-by-wire because its virtually impossible to fly by hand with conventional control methods due to its knife edge aerodynamics.

by **Transit** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 12:20 pm

Ju 87...
ugly and evil

Pete

by **chopper_nut** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 1:07 pm

How about the Polish LWS6 ZUBR. I dont know what they were thinking designing this. The Beech 1900D has got to be there. The funny thing is that the C model looks quite good.

by **hinch** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 2:18 pm

i would also put forward on the chopper front the Sikorsky Seahorse / Westland Wessex - they look similar, probably the source of interbreeding.

Dornier 228, Beriev Bartini (haha), DeHav Buffalo, PZL Wilga, Dash 8 (looks good from one angle only), c337, Trislander...

by **chopper_nut** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 3:26 pm

Im not sure what the Seahorse is, whats the designation? I usually go on the Army designations for choppers. I have to disagree here though, the Wessex is quite a good looking machine. If any helo is in this race is has to be one of those gigantic Russian beasties with the two rotors operating on pods on either side.

by **flynz** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 4:24 pm

I nominate Atr 72-500 with its landing gear down! as well as BAE 146 particulary the-200 (runs and hides from Jon)

by **ardypilot** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 9:14 pm

The Westland-Hill Pterodactyl is horrible! That definitly wins now I have seen a photo of it

Also, although the Lancaster bomber was a symbol of stength and success in RAF history, its pretty ugly as well. On the ground it looks the worst, the worlds biggest taildragger I belive...

BTW Hinch, IMO the Trislander isn't all that bad, it's just different

by **Transit** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 9:18 pm

surely not the Comet ??!
Those wing root engine nacelles are poetry

Pete

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