Challenge: name an airplane uglier than the Lloyd Luftkreuzer

Challenge: name an airplane uglier than the Lloyd 40.08 Luftkreuzer bomber.
Only a single prototype was built in Austria-Hungary during 1916, but it never flew!
Instead, it tipped over on its nose during taxi-tests revealing a centre-of-gravity that was way too high and too far forward.
Despite three engines, the huge tri-plane proved over-weight and never lifted off the ground. Like some of Lloyd’s single-engined prototypes, the Luftkreuzer’s pilot had few windows and zero visibility directly ahead. By the end of the war, the single prototype was dispatched to the scrap yard!
 
Blohm & Voss BV 141

The asymmetry causes me visual pain when i look at it.
The cockpit looks a tumor sticking out of the right wing.
How its actually capable of flight is another question by itself.
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It maybe the aircraft that should have been bought instead of the Gloster Gladiator but no one can claim the Bristol 133 wasn't pug ugly.

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While I'm on the subject of pug ugly may I mention the Boeing P26

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