Challenge: name an airplane uglier than the Lloyd Luftkreuzer

[Dathi THorfinnsson]

Is that how grown-up airplanes make baby airplanes?

And from the side:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:CaproniCa.60.jpg

 

[Peg Leg Pom]

Is that how grown-up airplanes make baby airplanes?

Well when a daddy aeroplane and a mummy aeroplane hug in a special way.

 

[NotBigBrother]

Here is a mommy plane with her babies. She carries them around untill they learn to fly by themselves.

 

[The Byronic Hero]

I found this beauty...

 

[wcv215]

Literally ANY of the Philips multiplanes. But the crown jewel of why has to be this piece of literal garbage.

 

[sparky42]

I found this beauty...

To be fair they actually serve a purpose.

 

[Driftless]

View attachment 512288 Literally ANY of the Philips multiplayers. But the crown jewel of why has to be this piece of literal garbage.

Very good for drying the battalions socks.... all at the same time....

 

[TwisterAce]

Have you ever seen a pancake fly through the air?

Allow me to present the Vought V-173 prototype and the Vought XF5U fighter...

 

[marathag]

Have you ever seen a pancake fly through the air?

Allow me to present the Vought V-173 prototype and the Vought XF5U fighter...

Not ugly though.

 

[Peg Leg Pom]

There's this hideous death trap that would never have gotten a certificate of airworthiness. The damn things nothing but flimsy kite with an engine.

 

[riggerrob]

[QUOTE

Yup! It sure is ugly. A 1916 concept built in the he late 1930s! Way more struts than I can count! The central cone is just an elongated propeller spinner with no structural purpose.
That schrage muzik aramant was used by a few other WW2 night fighters.

 

[Bbone91]

No love for the Bonny Gull or Christmas Bullet?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonney_Gull
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_Bullet

 

[Peg Leg Pom]

[QUOTE

Yup! It sure is ugly. A 1916 concept built in the he late 1930s! Way more struts than I can count! The central cone is just an elongated propeller spinner with no structural purpose.
That schrage muzik aramant was used by a few other WW2 night fighters.

I don't know what they were putting in their pipes in the Vickers design office, but they'd probably get two years inside for it.

 

[M79]

XF-85 Goblin
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonnell_XF-85_Goblin

Blohm & Voss P.215
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blohm_&_Voss_P_215

Blohm & Voss P.217
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.pinterest.com/amp/pin/328692472790843885/

Henschel P.87
http://www.luft46.com/henschel/hsp87.html

And a smattering of others
https://www.airforcetimes.com/news/your-air-force/2019/05/18/the-13-all-time-ugliest-airplanes/

 

[BlackDragon98]

Have you ever seen a pancake fly through the air?

Allow me to present the Vought V-173 prototype and the Vought XF5U fighter...

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Ah the "flying pancake".

I wonder what the Marines on Guadalcanal would think when they saw one of these airdropping supplies
"We must winning this war, their dropping fresh pancakes from a large flying pancake." -US Marine who served at Guadalcanal in 1942

 

[Dorknought]

Well when a daddy aeroplane and a mummy aeroplane hug in a special way.

The miracle of birth:

...and they do surrogacy:

 

[Dorknought]

 

[Peg Leg Pom]

Miss Gannet appears to be pregnant. That's what she gets for hanging around with sailors.

 

[marathag]

Miss Gannet appears to be pregnant. That's what she gets for hanging around with sailors.

Nah, a Tumor, or Elephantiasis. The Ugly concentrated down low

 

[M79]

The miracle of birth:

...and they do surrogacy:

...the puns sometimes write themselves...