Excuse me poetpilot, but I must take exception to your statement that the english build ugly aeroplanes.
(Swallowed the bait, hook line & sinker)
The prize for uglyist must surely go to some of the 1930s french bombers. If the definition of a camel is 'a horse designed by a committee', then these aircraft must have been designed by the mother & father of all committees!!
And my own aircraft was french once.
(DH88 - most beautiful aircraft ever)