World's ugliest airplanes?
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How about the Blackburn Beverley - A true heap and a pig to service in the heat of Muharraq. The "designer" should have been charged with crimes against good taste and engineering, Even Burt Rutan could not design anything so uuuugly.
. . . and the noise in the pax cabin in the tailboom put me off asking for Shacks.
It's no oil painting I agree but I wouldn't call it ugly, especially compared to many of the other contenders.
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After the Beverley how dare anybody insult the Shackleton, this was a true gentlemen's aircraft, leather seats, multi in-flight entertainment screens, full flow air-con - open a window. You could walk around and discuss the progress of the flight with the pilots/navigators and simple to maintain - I know - I spent 7 years on them. I preferred the MK2/T2 and T4, the MK3 was a bit of an abortion and how Avro's swung that past the Ministry as a Shackleton is still a mystery, must have been after a heavy lunch. I flew in a MK3 from Majunga to St Mawgan - spent a few days in Wheelus after we had a nose "red" - boffins said to fly to Luqa with gear down and locked - did wonders for fuel consumption and aerodynamics. Then I decided to go into civil aviation - I certainly had no intention of working so stayed in the airline business for 35 years - Oh great days.
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with gear down and locked
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No - it was all three down and ground locks in, don't worry about ditching, not too sure whether a Shack could ditch anyway. - Ain't much land between Libya and Malta. 11 on board, minimum "calculated" fuel load and off we went.
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Depending on how strict the rules are for this thread .....
Maybe effective, but surely ugly ?
How about the
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lun-class_ekranoplan ?
Maybe effective, but surely ugly ?
How about the
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lun-class_ekranoplan ?
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You have to be quite ancient - like wot I am - to remember it but I nominate the Percival Prentice. Some Percivals were acceptably pretty but not this one.
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How about the Hunting H-126. Only a blind mother could think it beautiful.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huntin...ting_H.126.jpg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huntin...ting_H.126.jpg
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What an interesting aircraft, ralphos. It does rather fuzzy up the line between "form follows function" and "sheer f**k ugly". A quick Wikipedia scan indicates it was the Russian clients who were looking for a more effective ag plane than the AN2 and who insisted the new aircraft be jet powered. There must be a story there: the early 1970s bureaucracy specifying a design based on the wishful thinking that a jet powerplant would emerge with the instant response of a piston engine.
One wonders what the Poles would have come up with if left to their own devices. I'm sure it wouldn't have been a jet.
My own vote for, if not the ugliest, the most ungainly of modern aircraft, is the Beech 1900 with all its added airfoils.
One wonders what the Poles would have come up with if left to their own devices. I'm sure it wouldn't have been a jet.
My own vote for, if not the ugliest, the most ungainly of modern aircraft, is the Beech 1900 with all its added airfoils.
