2 x very ugly planes:

One more:

I don't find the Caproni Stipa so ugly.
Flying barrels , yeah...:rolleyes:

Ugly or not, that is easily my best plane in RoF, and it doesn't matter how ugly it is from the outside, it's a nice view from the inside with the ground scattered with D.VII's :P

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5183/...dd04d127cf.jpg

A great way to make an ugly plane out of a beautiful one, as has already been shown here in some cases, is to stick radar in the nose, or to make it two seater. I could post many two-seaters here (Sea Fury, Spitfire and Hunter to name but a few) that are still quite pretty, but no where near as pretty as their single seater originals.

Very funny thread! And really puts my aircraft recon to shame because so many of these I'd never heard of! BUT, I do carry an ace card, Gents, I give you.....

......The Fairey Gannet
http://www.warbirdalley.com/images/F...Gannet-AS4.jpg

Sacrilege!!! that thing transcended ugly back into beautifull

What plane is this? Looks like an old P-47 with an inline engine and P-40 tail?

Its and XP-47H
http://www.vectorsite.net/avp47_07.png

Which had a Chrysler XI-2220-11 water-cooled inline 16-cylinder inverted vee engine

The follow up being the XP-72 aka Super Thunderbolt
http://www.vectorsite.net/avp47_09.png

Which had a air cooled PW R-4360 that had 28 cylinders

http://1000aircraftphotos.com/Contri...rd/6041L-1.jpg
http://1000aircraftphotos.com/Contri...rd/6041L-2.jpg