Posted this pic in another forum, just wanted to share with you all:
As far as I know, no kit of this airplane exists ( wonder why…)
Any other candidates for the ugly tittle out there?
I think that would make the Wright Brothers regret inventing airplanes.
you win
That’s not a plane… no… it’s er… uhm… a tank! yeah! that’s what it is! [:p]
I dunno… Steve-O has a couple of hidious ones in his vast collection… Let’s wait for him to turn up before giving out the prizes, eh?
To be classed as an airplane I think it has to be able to Fly, I’m not sure I’d drive that one off a cliff…
That’s one of the few airplanes that you can’t honestly tell whether it’s coming or going! [:o]
Take care,
Frank
Looks like an exploded piano to me[V][:D].
Its ugly as it is bizzare.
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There is no word to describe the hideous shape that thing forms!!!
I like it so much, it’s now my desktop image![(-D][(-D]
It looks like a monster food processor gone bad to me. Did it actually fly??
Bem, e as “panquecas voadoras” da Vought???
E durante a 1ª guerra ainda houve avões bem mais feios…
Já agora, “isso” chegou a levantar do chão???
Thats a pretty ordinary lookin’ aircraft. I wonder if it actually flew? I certainly wouldn’t of liked to have been the test pilot.
Euh, are you really really sure it’s an airplane, looks more like post-modern design for an opera-house or something like that.
Uh huh, uh huh, uh huh…
I want one! [:D][:D]
If this monster has a prop, I don’t see it. Maybe the designer was anticipating the development of afterburning jet engines - you would need that much thrust to overcome the drag from the airframe. You have to wonder what value pilots gave their lives back then. I’d be afraid to just stand next to the thing in case it fell over.
If you look at the development of anything technical, the most bizarre (and interesting) time is at the beginning when everyone is experimenting and nobody has any idea what the optimum solution will look like. After the best design emerges everything begins to look alike. I’d date this one as being from the Precambrian era of aircraft evolution.
These are the times I really miss having a scanner or digital camera. But among my all time favorite ugly planes is the Bell Aerocuda. This plane’s ugliness is made that much so by the fact that the designers went to so much trouble to make it beautiful, as well as lethal. They failed miserably on both counts.
But this one at the top of the thread, it was deinitely beaten with the fabled Ugly Stick.
tom
P.S. Oh, and how can I forget that most hideous of winged creatures, the German biplane known as the “Floh” (flea). The fuselage was about two feet wide and 12 feet deep at the cockpit line. Oh, how I wish that neat little kit was still available. Alas, that was one that got consumed by my fire. I was waiting to find some references for painting and photos of other angles. But none could be found.
Anyone watch that show on Discovery Wings last night that had the Junkyard Wars style build off where France, Britain and USA had to make planes out of junk?
What a show! The Brits won it, but all 3 planes were wonderful given the circumstances. They were ugly as hell but flew great.
I dunno…it may have been a storage shed that caught fire and the homeowner beat-out the fire with a piece of wet chain…
What the hell is that?
Is that a bunch of garbage thrown in into a pile?
I wonder if this is even concidered a plane.
Boy, what was the guy who invented this thing thinking?
They are s howing that Junkyard Wars episode in the Wings rotation this very day. See if you can catch it if you haven’t. It’s really impressive.
tom