Author Topic: Poll: ugliest plane ever built (Read 6411 times)

Simaril · « **Reply #60 on:** May 01, 2005, 04:09:34 PM »

I dont even want to think about operational costs for that beast....

Wolfala · « **Reply #61 on:** May 01, 2005, 04:23:23 PM »

Yea, with 100 LL being close to $4.00 per gal - R4360 burns around 180 GPH in cruise + the 4 aux turbines - yea ... yea, bend over.

bunch · « **Reply #62 on:** May 01, 2005, 11:39:20 PM »

When i was looking for photos of a mixed engines B-36 i came across an image of an experimental passenger conversion.
Was a double decker for 240 passengers.
What is the relative difference of leg & elbow room standards from 1950 to today? in other words how many 2005 passengers does a 1950 passenger =, or how would a B-36 passenger plane stack up against a 747 or A380?

Red Tail 444 · « **Reply #63 on:** May 04, 2005, 02:33:46 PM »

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Originally posted by GREENTENERAL
Friday nite + garage + group of friends + (3xcases of beer) = Lysander

That one has my vote!

I just cant help thinking about the fact that someone at one time had to carry that design in and sell it to his employer. I wish I had footage of that meeting.

Lysander = the Short Bus of the avaition world

Glasses · « **Reply #64 on:** May 04, 2005, 05:27:02 PM »

I have the guliest plane ever built for ya it's called the Messerchspit.

That's what I would call ugly specially the fact that it combined the ugliest pinkiest girlie plane around with a manly sturdy aircraft to make the most horrible abomination known to aeronautics afficionados everywhere

straffo · « **Reply #65 on:** May 04, 2005, 05:30:24 PM »

Could have been worst ... imagine a mighty 190 with a merlin in the nose ...

My god that would have been a real abomination !

Rino · « **Reply #66 on:** May 07, 2005, 05:23:50 PM »

This picture does not do justice to the pure essence of
stomach churning hideousness of this aircraft

Rino · « **Reply #67 on:** May 07, 2005, 08:31:15 PM »

I'm not sure if the picture above is showing or not, getting a
red x at work.
http://www.wpafb.af.mil/museum/outdoor/od15.htm

Gianlupo · « **Reply #68 on:** May 12, 2005, 07:06:05 AM »

Here is the Messerspit

(just keep watching this thread, Straffo, I'll make a Superfocke Spitwulf for you!)

and, Rino, here is your plane, the Northrop YC-125B

(I don't know why, but, to me, it looks like a sitting goose... am I nut?

)

Plus, a flying box....

(the Russian plane Molniya-1)

.....and a microlight

(I don't know what plane it is and I really doubt it can actually fly, however, though maybe not really ugly, it's funny to see!)

Rino · « **Reply #69 on:** May 13, 2005, 08:03:29 PM »

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Originally posted by Gianlupo
The Viscount is really awful! At first, I thought the picture was a fake...

And the homebuilt... well, let's say it is, at least, original...!

it remembers me a prototype I've seen somewhere... or maybe it was just a project... I'll look for it and, if I find it, I will post it!

Thanks for your posts, "Jochen"

When I worked at Teterboro, NJ in the late 80s we used to
get rock stars flying in on a Viscount regularly. Not only was the
base airframe hideous, but the paintjob was awful as well.

I can still remember the tail number...N150RC, which we said
stood for Ray Charles as only a blind man would have picked
those colors

Also, thanks Lupo for posting the Norseman for me.