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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PZL_M-15_Belphegor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PZL_M-15_Belphegor The M-15 is still uglier. Also intended as a cropduster, thou
by mastax 7mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PZL_M-15_Belphegor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PZL_M-15_Belphegor
The M-15 is still uglier. Also intended as a cropduster, though unlike the AirTruk it was really bad at that job in every way.
- EdwardDiego 7mo agoI'll raise you the Blackburn B-54 [0] and the Fairey Gannet [1]. 0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackburn_B-54 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackburn_B-54 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairey_Gannet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairey_Gannet
- fwipsy 7mo agoThe fairy gannet looks like two smaller airplanes clipping into each other. It looks like an AI from ten years ago generated an image of an airplane. It looks like they hired engineers who got their degrees in Kerbal Space Program and then paid them by the hour. "Even if it's broke, it doesn't have enough features yet." The Belphegor is still uglier though.
- EdwardDiego 7mo agoNow that I googled more pictures of it, I agree, the one in Wikipedia is obviously it's most flattering angle, looks almost... Rutanesque. This photo though, I see what you mean. https://old.reddit.com/r/aviation/comments/z3envi/the_pzl_m15_belphegor_noisy_demon_was_a_large/ https://old.reddit.com/r/aviation/comments/z3envi/the_pzl_m1...
- NegativeLatency 7mo agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairey_Gannet_AEW.3 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairey_Gannet_AEW.3 The AEW version looks ok
- EdwardDiego 7mo agoYeah they improved it on the AEW, looks far less bubonic.
- pinewurst 7mo agoNot the Nimrod AEW though: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Aerospace_Nimrod_AEW3 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Aerospace_Nimrod_AEW3
- EdwardDiego 7mo agoYeah, bless the Nimrod AEW, WORST RHINOPLASTY EVER.
- taylorius 7mo agoAnd I shall raise you the Stipa Caproni https://www.thevintagenews.com/2016/05/13/the-strange-barrel-shaped-italian-airplane-called-stipa-caproni-designed-in-the-1930s/ https://www.thevintagenews.com/2016/05/13/the-strange-barrel...
- EdwardDiego 7mo agoI think this one is winning the inverse beauty contest. It looks like it really wants to scoop up a large amount of plankton mid-cruise.
- jodrellblank 7mo agoSee also the Caproni Transaero, which isn't totally ugly but is messy in a "maybe more wings is better? some pushing engines at the back?" kind of way. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caproni_Ca.60 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caproni_Ca.60
- cf100clunk 7mo ago> pushing engines at the back Weird aircraft with a pusher engine? Curtiss-Wright XP-55 Ascender, right this way: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtiss-Wright_XP-55_Ascender https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtiss-Wright_XP-55_Ascender (and check out the list of similar aircraft)
- EdwardDiego 7mo agoI had a bloody die-cast toy of that as a kid for some reason, I thought it was just a fake plane they'd invented to justify a toy!
- jodrellblank 7mo agoFairey who also came up with the Rotodyne, a cool part-plane, part-helipcoter, part-autogyro: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairey_Rotodyne https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairey_Rotodyne https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkJOm1V77Xg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkJOm1V77Xg - video by 'Mustard'
- somat 7mo agohere is a great video documentary on the m-15 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlyO9cJ8hiQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlyO9cJ8hiQ (Alexander the ok: PZL Mielec M-15: One of the Aircraft of All Time)
- dylan604 7mo agoThat image made me smile. Yeah, it would be bad at being a plane with poles attached to it like that. I'll see myself out now
- spankibalt 7mo agoYou are off your rocker dude; the Belphegor is weird, but certainly not ugly. You want certified ugly? You'll find it under the synonym DFW T.28 Floh. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DFW_Floh https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DFW_Floh
- postepowanieadm 7mo agoLooks like a sun fish.
- chuckadams 7mo agoI dunno about ugly, I'd call it a "Chibi Biplane".
- RealityVoid 7mo agoI have a lot of fondness for the AN-2 that this airplane aimed to replace. That is, as well, an ugly plane, but once I parachuted out of one a couple of times, it grew on me.
- postepowanieadm 7mo agoI don't know, it's kinda slick looking - if you ignore the pylons.
- jodrellblank 7mo agoI was half expecting to see the SNECMA C-450 'Coléoptère' in the article, with its office-tea-trolley wheels: https://altitudepost.com/the-plane-without-wings-what-happened-to-frances-coleoptere-experimental-aircraft/ https://altitudepost.com/the-plane-without-wings-what-happen... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coleopter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coleopter