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Now, before you all chip with the obvious (and admittedly very ulgy) Shorts 360... there is worse. No really there is, so what is the ugliest pugliest aircraft? No limits here, light, civil, mil...
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On the light aircraft side, I guess it would have to be the Pilatus PC6.
On the civil side, the Armstrong Whitworth Argosy wouldn't win any beauty contests - but does have something about it.
Mil - Has to be the Lockheed C5 Galaxy - Yuk!
Apologies to anyone who flies any of these and loves 'em!
On the civil side, the Armstrong Whitworth Argosy wouldn't win any beauty contests - but does have something about it.
Mil - Has to be the Lockheed C5 Galaxy - Yuk!
Apologies to anyone who flies any of these and loves 'em!
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Some ugly aeroplanes:
Piper Pawnee
PZL M-18A Dromader
PZL 104-35A Wilga
Antonov AN-2
Aviation Traders Carvair
Cessna 337
Fairchild SA-227AC Metro III
Ilyushin Il-76
Antonov AN-124
B-52
F1-11
Britten Norman Trislander
The Shorts Skyvan is even uglier than the Shorts 330/360.
Mind you, I would be very happy to fly any of the above mentioned aircraft if someone were to pay me.....
Piper Pawnee
PZL M-18A Dromader
PZL 104-35A Wilga
Antonov AN-2
Aviation Traders Carvair
Cessna 337
Fairchild SA-227AC Metro III
Ilyushin Il-76
Antonov AN-124
B-52
F1-11
Britten Norman Trislander
The Shorts Skyvan is even uglier than the Shorts 330/360.
Mind you, I would be very happy to fly any of the above mentioned aircraft if someone were to pay me.....
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Can't really agree about either the B-52 or the F-111. However, the Boeing contender for the JSF - now that IS coyote ugly. No wonder it didn't win - no general wanted something that ugly in his Air Force.
Now, before you all chip with the obvious (and admittedly very ulgy) Shorts 360... there is worse. No really there is, so what is the ugliest pugliest aircraft? No limits here, light, civil, mil...
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Ugly, Scottish Aviation "Pioneer" 
Ugly but "Pretty" as opposed to Pretty Ugly, Scottish Aviation Twin Pioneer
Saw one fly backwards once
we aim to please, it keeps the cleaners happy
Ugly but "Pretty" as opposed to Pretty Ugly, Scottish Aviation Twin Pioneer
Saw one fly backwards once we aim to please, it keeps the cleaners happy
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I am not sure but Marcel Dassault ( maker of Mirage and Falcon Jets) once said or what is meant to be:
If it is Beautiful then it flies nicely...
now whether that is correct or not...dunno...
If it is Beautiful then it flies nicely...
now whether that is correct or not...dunno...
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Pithblot, I think you have it.
The Transavia Airtruk (warning: may frighten small children)
From Australia, one could reasonably assume it was designed, say, by a couple of locals in a Darwin bar shortly after passing out. It was however crafted by an Italian ex patriate, who presumably was deported from his home country on the grounds that his sense of style amounted to treason.
It has a sesquiplane layout. I'm not really sure what this aeronautical term means, but I'm guessing the gist is "extremely unpleasant".
Starting out with an IO-520, later variants reached 400hp with an IO-720. This could only have been a good thing, as it meant you could get one out of sight quicker than ever before.
Having hosted the creation of this monstrosity, the Australians and their NZ manufacturing cohorts also managed to ship the "flying midair collision" to countries such as Denmark and Kenya, despite never formally declaring war.
A total of 118 were built from 1966 to the eighties, although how many were destroyed for humanitarian reasons is not known. It has been said that the Airtruk isn't merely the ugliest aeroplane ever, "it's the ugliest anything, ever."
If there is an aircraft more ugly than this, then I may need sedation before seeing the pictures.
The Transavia Airtruk (warning: may frighten small children)
From Australia, one could reasonably assume it was designed, say, by a couple of locals in a Darwin bar shortly after passing out. It was however crafted by an Italian ex patriate, who presumably was deported from his home country on the grounds that his sense of style amounted to treason.
It has a sesquiplane layout. I'm not really sure what this aeronautical term means, but I'm guessing the gist is "extremely unpleasant".
Starting out with an IO-520, later variants reached 400hp with an IO-720. This could only have been a good thing, as it meant you could get one out of sight quicker than ever before.
Having hosted the creation of this monstrosity, the Australians and their NZ manufacturing cohorts also managed to ship the "flying midair collision" to countries such as Denmark and Kenya, despite never formally declaring war.
A total of 118 were built from 1966 to the eighties, although how many were destroyed for humanitarian reasons is not known. It has been said that the Airtruk isn't merely the ugliest aeroplane ever, "it's the ugliest anything, ever."
If there is an aircraft more ugly than this, then I may need sedation before seeing the pictures.
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I'd have to vote for the Airtruk as well. Here is a link to some posts about it on D&G.
http://www.pprune.org/forums/showthr...5&pagenumber=1
Also, I'd vote for almost anything designed in Russia before the '70s.
http://www.pprune.org/forums/showthr...5&pagenumber=1
Also, I'd vote for almost anything designed in Russia before the '70s.
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Ooooh, it's too hideous...
Put me off my breakfast
(I was going to say wasn't that the aircraft in the third Mad Max film, but that was covered in the link posted by "Louie the Fly")
Put me off my breakfast
(I was going to say wasn't that the aircraft in the third Mad Max film, but that was covered in the link posted by "Louie the Fly")
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Who you calling ugly... punk..
The only people who call sheds ugly are those who have never had the privilege to fly her... 
Personally I think the skyvan and 330 are rather plug, but the 360 has it right... beautiful aeroplane...
Personally I think the skyvan and 330 are rather plug, but the 360 has it right... beautiful aeroplane...
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Deja vu?
