Ugliest Aircraft Submissions....

[scoolbubba]

That bad boy used to fly over my house when I lived at Wright-Patt about 15 years ago. My dad told me it was called the "Droop Snoop".

http://www.eastlothianmuseums.org/w...0295814/Museum-ARIA-Aircraft-Droop-Snoop.html

My old man responded to the crash of one of these near our home in 1981. Said it was a weird looking plane (what was left) but he couldn't remember what it did.

 

[OSUbeaver]

Took this during my visit to the museum at NAS Tillamook, I can't remember what it is called but it sure is ugly.

 

[pilot19]

Looks like it got punched in the nose and it has major swelling. What an ugly plane

 

[Pags]

Took this during my visit to the museum at NAS Tillamook, I can't remember what it is called but it sure is ugly.

Helicopter submissions aren't fair. Helos are ugly by their very nature.

 

[OscarMyers]

Granted its a glider but its still ugly XFG-1 Fuel Glider

 

[Lawman]

Helicopter submissions aren't fair. Helos are ugly by their very nature.

It gets worse. Proposed Mojave AEW helo.

 

[Alpha_Echo_606]

Helicopter submissions aren't fair. Helos are ugly by their very nature.

Looks like its cross eyed and looking at me.

 

[NavAir42]

Helos are ugly by their very nature.

And an offense against nature.

 

[Mos]

I always thought the KA-25 Hormone had all the features of ugliness. Bad case of antenna acne, an ungainly shopping-cart style undercarriage, stubby tail, freaky two rotors, even its NATO name is ugly.

 

[A4sForever]

I always thought the KA-25 Hormone had all the features of ugliness. Bad case of antenna acne, an ungainly shopping-cart style undercarriage, stubby tail, freaky two rotors, even its NATO name is ugly.

I wonder which came first:

The KAMEN HH-43 'Huskie' chicken (@ 1953), or the KA-25 'Hormone' egg (@ 1958) ... ???

>>>>>>> KAMEN HH-43 'Huskie' and the KAMOV KA-25 'Hormone' <<<<<<<<

 

[Carlos Caliente]

By the way, do we do cross-decks any more? Probably no foreign compatible carrier deck remaining
BzB

Yep, french Rafales and E-2's were on the TR summer before last. ALthough the rafale is a pretty good looking aircraft, it is positively scary and ugly looking when it drags its tail skag across all four cross deck pennants.

My vote goes to the Fairey Gannet!

 

[HercDriver]

The Guardrail is pretty hideous...like it needs to see a skin doctor.

Figures the Army would fly it, as they fly the (slightly) ugly C-23 Sherpa.

 

[HercDriver]

The Hormone is ugly. I always wondered how they manufactured it.

I wonder which came first:

The KAMEN HH-43 'Huskie' chicken (@ 1953), or the KA-25 'Hormone' egg (@ 1958) ... ???

>>>>>>> KAMEN HH-43 'Huskie' and the KAMOV KA-25 'Hormone' <<<<<<<<

I mean, How do you make a Hormone??:icon_tong

 

[Lawman]

Figures the Army would fly it, as they fly the (slightly) ugly C-23 Sherpa.

Slightly? The unofficial nickname of the C-23 is the "flying refridgerator box." Im convinced that was half the reason we couldnt keep the C-27 Spartan in house. The Army isnt allowed to have elegant/sexy/clean looking fixed wing aircraft. Proof being the Sherpa, the Sparkchasing C-12, and the Mohawk.

 

[yak52driver]

I flew a charter up to KSAW yesterday, a former SAC B-52 base in Michigan. They had an IL-76 sitting on the ramp all chained down and barricaded to keep it from leaving. Maybe not ugly, but unusual looking. Sorry for the rainy, gray picture.