Fairey 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.
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