Ugliest Aircraft Ever Designed, Your Suggestions!

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what about this.....anyone know more about it.... ( barry)and do surfaceeffect vessels count as aircraft ?

http://www.basair.com.au/slipstream/Images/lun_ekran.jpg

Never saw that one before, but is sure is ugly. That thing has a nose even a mother couldn't love.

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Finally found a pic of the Goblin and if we include models I submit the Mud Duck, a foam-board monstrosity ( sorry Sandy but it IS ugly)

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[wonwinglo]

I love the Mud Duck! have the plans somewhere to build one day,this is built from foamboard,she flies like a dream.

A farmer actually used one to spray his crops with.

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In answer to NTT'S post, Yes that most certainly is a Lunn, a very ugly but Capable machine in it's day.

Interestingly these surface machines are neither classified as aircraft or ships even today. Despite this, Machines like the Lunn and the Orljonok A-90 actually operate like normal aircraft once airbourne as the normal aircraft controls come into play and some of them can actually rise out of the surface effect into normal flight.

That Bartini I posted earlier was more than capable of normal flight as the pics on the link I posted show.

Ps........That Mud Duck in Duncan's post looks like a lot of fun !!!

Regards.........Mark.

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Ugly Duck

More Mud Duck, told you it was ugly, and it is big too. Details on www.mudduckaviation.com includes the crop-duster version.

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finding it hard to look at this thread noe....its a horror show!!!

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The Sikorsky CH-54 Sky Crane



To me it just looks like someone built a helicopter and chopped the middle out. Practical as it may be, it still looks like Crane Fly!!!

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Hi Richard,

I have seen those operating many times from The Army Air Corps Base at Middle Wallop when my Dad was stationed there in 1971, very unusual looking machine too both in the air and on the ground. First time I saw one was airbourne and I was in a Bell 47 Sioux at the time (One of the Blue Eagles) on a pleasure flight at the Open Day at Middle Wallop. Next time I saw it..I went airbourne in it too !!! My Dad managed to get me a flight on board this machine. They are certainly Huge too. The really weird bit is walking into the cockpit via the door on the back of the cab...just like walking through a normal office door.

There was quite a bit of movement with these machines then, I suspect probably travelling across Europe too bearing in mind that the Vietnam War was still going on at the time.

Regards.....Mark.

[wonwinglo]

They used them recently in Australia for fighting fires,a company called Erikson Crane dismantle them just like large cranes and transport them all over the world doping important jobs.

Despite their looks they are a really useful life saving tool.

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Hi Richard,I have seen those operating many times from The Army Air Corps Base at Middle Wallop when my Dad was stationed there in 1971, very unusual looking machine too both in the air and on the ground. First time I saw one was airbourne and I was in a Bell 47 Sioux at the time (One of the Blue Eagles) on a pleasure flight at the Open Day at Middle Wallop. Next time I saw it..I went airbourne in it too !!! My Dad managed to get me a flight on board this machine. They are certainly Huge too. The really weird bit is walking into the cockpit via the door on the back of the cab...just like walking through a normal office door.

There was quite a bit of movement with these machines then, I suspect probably travelling across Europe too bearing in mind that the Vietnam War was still going on at the time.

Regards.....Mark.

we had the blue eagles here about 4 weeks ago- great blokes great choppers !!!!!

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they are also used for logging. a hug clamp with a rotarty saw in the middle is hung from it and a very skilled pilot uses it to clamp onto the bottom of a tree and fly it back to camp.

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Does this one qualify ?

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[wonwinglo]

The designer must have had quite a bit of imagination to dream that one up ! it looks as if he had second thoughts as to a landplane or seaplane ?

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Concord is the best looking aircraft ever, and i can remember on the last ever flight our house was right underneath the flight path and i was watching it.

Euan

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Does this one qualify ?

What is it...?......waht a mess.......looks like shed with wings.