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My top spot for ugliest airplane remains occupied by the PZL M-15 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PZL_M-15_Belphegor

A turbine-engined biplane for crop dusting.





It's like the old joke about how you ID aircraft from the 50s to the 70s:

- If it's ugly, it's British.

- If it's weird, it's French.

- If it's ugly AND weird, it's Russian.


That might explain why the TSR-2 was cancelled - too beautiful!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BAC_TSR-2


Came to this thread to mention Belphagor.

Saw the beast in person in Kraków. Was inspired enough to dedicate a poem to it:

    O the forgotten craft of yore!
    To darkest arts I turn once more.
    With new and oldest runes combined,
    I'll birth the only of its kind:

    Four-winged beast from depth of hell
    By breath of fire be propel'd!
    The cyclops eye, rise in my field!
    With venom be your biceps filled!

    From skies you'll pour death and gore—
    I summon thee, o BELPHEGOR!

    ...Thus quoth der Polen: 
Nevermore .




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