What is the worlds ugliest aircraft?

[NickN]

I'd like to know what you think is the world ugliest aircraft.

For me it would have to be the Nimrod.

[KrishnaM]

not as ugly as the Airbus A300-600ST Beluga Whale

[Adam G]

The A380 - that thing from front on is not a pretty plane.

[Lukas M]

Alot of Tuplovev's.

[Fred C]

The A380 - that thing from front on is not a pretty plane.

Amen on that! In fact not pretty from any angle.......

[Tony P]

transavia air truck

[Steve Bottom]

My guess is that Boeing management think the 787 is looking very ugly just now.

that's going to upset the " i love Boeing group ! LOL

[Georgie B]

The A380 :rolleyes:

[Rod Sloan]

Short 360

[Nathan Long]

The Blackburn Blackburn.

[Anthony T]

Must be a slow news day :rolleyes:

Anything with a white kangaroo on the tail. :p

[Stephen B]

The one without me on it.

[Jethro H]

The ATL-98 Carvair would take the cake for me.

http://www.airliners.net/photo/British-Air-Ferries/Aviation-Traders-ATL-98/1501533/&sid=b1f788965d7b3c16508ac6ba56f42c83

[Bernie P]

The ATL-98 Carvair: looks like a B747 Prototype! But, it is BUTT ugly indeed!!!

[NickN]

The Carvair was my very close second. It was designed to ferry passengers and their cars from the UK accross the channel to continental Europe.

It's a conversion of the DC-4 and there were still 2 Carvairs in service as of 2002. (Information courtesy of Gerard Frawley).

[Sarah C]

The one without me on it.

:p Best answer yet!

The Super Guppy and the Beluga are my picks.

[Grant Smith]

Must be a slow news day :rolleyes:

Anything with a white kangaroo on the tail. :p

At this rate, it will be a slow news week...

:o

[Noel White]

Short 360

I will second the motion. :D

The flying "Block of Flats"

[Robert Zweck]

The Russians made an art form out of designing ugly aeroplanes.

[phil.l]

I will second the motion. :D

The flying "Block of Flats"

if not the 360 what about the 330

[Erik H. Bakke]

The Caspian Sea Monster....

Or, pretty much any of the Soviet ekranoplans would take the prize.

[steve k]

Bristol freighter
Fairey Rotodyne
both as ugly as ugly gets. Argosy would round out for 3rd place, Stratocrusers definitely in the list too.

[Gerard M]

I may be crazy for saying this but i actually find the Cessna Citation X very ugly compared to others in its class. and the A380 is definitely up there too, don't know what they were thinking over in the design department!

[Grahame Hutchison]

This must be right up there .....


http://photos.vox.flightaware.com/photos/retriever/b4370689ec58270b3d75bde5bc8082a0d3c92aaf

[NickN]

the A380 is definitely up there too, don't know what they were thinking over in the design department!

Probably not too concerned with looks and more with functionality and getting it to fly. You have to admit it's a marvel regardless of its looks.

And Grahame that is definately one ugly beast.

[Greg McDonald]

This must be right up there .....


http://photos.vox.flightaware.com/photos/retriever/b4370689ec58270b3d75bde5bc8082a0d3c92aaf

WTF is that:eek::eek::eek:

[Phillippe M]

Isn't that normally based at in Seattle at the Boeing Field... A converted 757?

I'm sure I saw it there in August when we were at the Museum of Flight, it was near the new RAAF Wedgetails.

[Jayden Laing]

That is one ugly & embarassing 757 ;)

[NickN]

Looks like somebody was trying to create a faux Concorde from a 757 :D

[Steve Jones]

I think it's best described as a 757 with facial reconstruction surgery that went wrong!!

[Stephen B]

It's a test bed aircraft for the F-22 Floptor program. Lockheed is flying a 737 similarly kitted out for the F-35 program. Tests the flight control systems and sensors before the real thing attempts to take to the air. http://www.aviationnews.eu/2007/03/05/f-35%c2%ae-catbird-avionics-test-bed-transitions-to-lockheed-martin-for-final-systems-installation/