UGLIEST PLANE EVER?

Hey, the C-2 doesn't look so bad when it's brining you cookies from home!! :)

My nomination is this Russian contraption from the 20s, I think it was called the Gorky (it's on Discovery Wings on a weekly basis). The thing was huge (if memory serves it had a dark room and printing press aboard) but just hideous looking...

Hey All,
Ithe new Boeing Xf-35 is the uglest U.S. AC yet. Anything Frog ah,er French
would be alltime ugly( xcpt the Spad 13)
Good Hunting,
rdxpress

I must admit that i have worked on a Gannet. The most scary thing about it was climbing into the cockpit. One hell of a climb.....Gregers

Another Fairey product I'm afraid!

Fairey Barracuda!

In their defence, they also produced one of the most beautiful - Fairey Delta 2.

Rob M.

If you want to see ugly aircraft, look up French designed planes from the 1930's. Man, some of them are just nasty looking.

No such thing as an ugly airplane... some are just prettier than others.
There are many at the lower end of the "pretty" scale:

1. Transavia Airtruk
2. Shorts Seamew (the Russians had a similar looking a/c, I believe it was the IL-20)
3. Any French between-the-wars bomber

Have to agree with gregers -
The Fairey Gannet is just plain wrong in so many ways.......

Whaz up,
I would have to agree w/ upnorth, I really dont feel that there is such a thing as an ugly a/c.
There is possibly one a/c that you could call ugly and thats the T-2C Buckeye. But than again she has some great lines
Flaps up,Mike

sorry, all raptor lovers... i'll give ugly award to f22.... there are also few ugly breat babes, but my award goes to raptor

To each their own I suppose, I'll go with you on the Guardrail, but the Thud is still in my ugly books.

To my mind, the best looking combat jet that came out of America is probably the F-5 Freedom Fighter. Now there's a plane with double the feminine appearance that the Thud could ever hope to have. A svelte, petite hourglass figure, easy maintenance and a nasty disposition when she needs it. What else could you ask for in either women or planes? :-)

How did the Thud get on your ugly list?! The Thunderchief is probably the prettiest airplane ever! It had a really feminine appearance, what with the area-rule fuselage, perfect!
As for an ugly aircraft? The RC-12 Gaurdrail. WAY too many antennaes!

Well, this poll has been done before and, as an avid wingnut, I must say there are no truly ugly aircraft, unorthodox perhaps but not ugly.

However, the afore mentioned Beluga is a real beauty in my book (no, thats not sarcasm) especially when you look at the Super Guppy it replaced.

For me, the top 5 list of less than aesthetically pleasing aircraft goes to this effect:

1: Shorts Seamew
2: Fairey Gannet
3: Super Guppy
4: Grumman C-2 Greyhound
5: Republic F-105 Thunderchief

One aircraft that, to my mind, looks so bizarre you just have to love it is the Edgely/Brooklands Optica. A bit of a rarity as it prooved quite sales proof . Its sort of like the VW Beetle with wings, threw a lot of design rules out the window and still came out with an eye catcher.

you can find photos of the optica on www.airliners.net

Fairey Gannet

I hate to say a plane is ugly but... it's pointy, bumpy, bulgy, and somewhat porcine

edit: funny, I remember my brother saying that the wildcat was ugly... I love that plane so much I wanted to punch him in the face