I was half expecting to see the SNECMA C-450 'Coléoptère' in the article, with its office-tea-trolley wheels:
replyhttps://altitudepost.com/the-plane-without-wings-what-happen...
You 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.
replyLooks like a sun fish.
replyI have a lot of fondness for the AN-2 that this airplane aimed to replace.
replyThat is, as well, an ugly plane, but once I parachuted out of one a couple of times, it grew on me.
here is a great video documentary on the m-15
replyhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlyO9cJ8hiQ (Alexander the ok: PZL Mielec M-15: One of the Aircraft of All Time)
I'll raise you the Blackburn B-54 [0] and the Fairey Gannet [1].
replyFairey who also came up with the Rotodyne, a cool part-plane, part-helipcoter, part-autogyro:
replyhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairey_Rotodyne
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkJOm1V77Xg - video by 'Mustard'
And I shall raise you the Stipa Caproni
replyhttps://www.thevintagenews.com/2016/05/13/the-strange-barrel...
See 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.
replyI think this one is winning the inverse beauty contest.
replyIt looks like it really wants to scoop up a large amount of plankton mid-cruise.
The 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."
replyThe Belphegor is still uglier though.
Now that I googled more pictures of it, I agree, the one in Wikipedia is obviously it's most flattering angle, looks almost... Rutanesque.
replyThis photo though, I see what you mean.
https://old.reddit.com/r/aviation/comments/z3envi/the_pzl_m1...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairey_Gannet_AEW.3
replyThe AEW version looks ok
Yeah they improved it on the AEW, looks far less bubonic.
replyI don't know, it's kinda slick looking - if you ignore the pylons.
replyThat 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
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