Challenge: name an airplane uglier than the Lloyd Luftkreuzer

[wcv215]

Wait, that’s not a rack of side armor for a Stryker?

Nope, its the 1907 Multiplane.

IIRC it was so bad, even in comparison to other planes of its era, it caused Philips to give up.

 

[Peg Leg Pom]

Somehow only a dog can fly it.

Snoopy's an amateur, Muttly doesn't need anything to fly.

 

[sparky42]

Snoopy's an amateur, Muttly doesn't need anything to fly.

If that's the case should we add in all the other planes they tried to use to catch the Pigeon? Cause some of them were "interesting"

 

[jlckansas]

Don't forget the Bell Aircuda.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_YFM-1_Airacuda

 

[Peg Leg Pom]

There's the Short Shetland. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_Shetland

 

[Peabody-Martini]

Don't forget the Bell Aircuda.

The Aircuda wasn't ugly, it was an example of prewar thinking and wasn't capable of the intended mission anyway.

 

[Bbone91]

Not as much as this

What airplane is that, anyway?

 

[Driftless]

What airplane is that, anyway?

Avro Shackleton, I believe

 

[TonyA]

Behold!

The Curtis-Goupil Duck

Hold on, I think we have a winner...what an abomination!

 

[marathag]

Hold on, I think we have a winner...what an abomination!

Goupil’s monoplane of 1884 was designed to duplicate the body of a bird as well as its wings. The novel feature was the inclusion - separately placed and not set in the wings - of elevons, the projecting control surfaces intended to act not only as elevators but as opposite-acting ailerons for control of roll. But they were not linked to the rudder action. Goupil’s steam engine intended as the power plant for this graceful machine was built but never installed in the airframe. But in 1917 Glenn Curtiss, who was trying to break the Wright patents on wing-warping - which the Wrights had said as early as 1908 included wing-tip ailerons - reconstructed the Goupil machine with a petrol engine and flew it. Between-wings ailerons in a biplane (most nearly corresponding to Goupil’s design for the monoplane) had been adopted by Curtiss much earlier.

 

[Hammerbolt]

The RAF'sA C-130K, a Hercules modified for meteorological research...

 

[sonofpegasus]

If picture above is the RAF's attempt at a mechanical hummimg bird, I would hate to see the flower it's meant to gather pollen from!!!

 

[Peg Leg Pom]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikoyan-Gurevich_MiG-8

 

[sparky42]

The RAF'sA C-130K, a Hercules modified for meteorological research...
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If we are going with RAF planes, then there's always the Nimrod AWACs:

 

[marathag]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikoyan-Gurevich_MiG-8

Its grandfather

The Granville Brother's Gee Bee Ascender

 

[Bbone91]

The RAF'sA C-130K, a Hercules modified for meteorological research...

Looks like an airborne narwhal!

 

[mudhead]

The Givaudan flying machine, built and tested at the Vermorel motor factory at Villefranche, France in 1909. It was quite unsuccessful.

 

[Gunnarnz]

The Givaudan flying machine... It was quite unsuccessful.

I'm shocked, shocked, I tell you!

 

[Peg Leg Pom]

Clement Ader's Avion III of 1897. Yes it did (briefly) fly.

 

[TonyA]

If we are going with RAF planes, then there's always the Nimrod AWACs:

How screwed up am I? I think the only thing really ugly about the Nimrod is its name...