To accompany the Sexiest Airplanes thread, some airplanes are ugly for a reason, they serve a utilitarian purpose.
Other airplane, though, make you question the engineer’s sanity.
This is for those airplane that make you say, “Uh…Why?”
For instance…
A two-seat light twin? Uh…Why?
Hmm…
The “utilitarian ugliness exemption” does make it tough.
But what the HELL were the engineers thinking with these? If you’re gonna make it then just make the wings bigger so it can actually fly!
http://www.flightglobal.com/blogs/aircraft-pictures/Ekranoplanlarge.jpg
http://www.strangecosmos.com/images/content/147080.jpg
The first Ekranoplan is awesome. I love it.
But yes, it’s Fugly, and it failed its purpose, so it’s hardly utilitarian. Good choice!
Ok, so this one does serve a purpose. The Ayres Loadmaster LM200. It was designed to carry 4 standard size demi containters. Again, somewhere along the line it failed, and GOD, what a Fugly airplane.
http://www.defence.co.kr/bbs/data/airarms4/lm200%20loadmaster.jpg
http://www.aeropedia.nl/birds/eigen/LM200-2.jpg
I don’t want to hurt anyone’s feelings, but I wouldn’t be surprised if the B1900 ends up on this list somewhere!
I just threw-up a little in my mouth. 
This engineer just took the day off to play golf and let his 8 year old son do the design…
Oh son, the can of worms you’ve opened!
Fugly, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder. Although as Phantomjet points out the Ayres is kinda’ stuck in the back of your throat!
The Shorts Skyvan is the ugliest thing to ever come out of Ireland and looks like the box our first Exploder came in with wings stuck on it:
The CV-22 Osprey is FUGLY!:
The Kamov Ka-50 helicopter, a word synonymous with Fugly to many, takes ugly to an entirely new level:
All Fugly… yet in response to utility considerations. Except that Ka-50. WTF
At any rate, I foresee this thread causing some hurt feelings and stepped-upon toes!!! Strap on the Kevlar boys!!! 
This was entirely to easy and I gotta two fer…
Two can play at this game, sir…
Wazzu’s favorite bird in the Yakima Aero Club: UGLY!
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2195/1912537615_00bdd25948.jpg
Now the Allegheny aircraft there is a Shorts 330, and along with it’s single tailed younger brother the 360(and I say brother cause there’s no way this thing has any nice curves or other soft feminine qualities) this below is the Skyvan, and yes it is HIDEOUS!!! I think it’s the Skyvan is a snapshot of the 330 when it was a child.
A side note, the 330 and 360 were nicknamed the ‘Irish Man’s Concorde’.
One thing with em though, for a 30-50 seat turboprop, these things had the best cabin size. I always thought that they should put “Missing” adverstisements on them for their resemblence to a milk carton.
I have a lot of passenger time in various versions of these things in many liveries and yes they were comfortable to occupy. The elevated flight deck was a novelty to many a civilian passenger however.
Not to steal your thunder but I believe I’ve actually seen some of these with missing child announcements on the side.
Do you recall the airline that had the ads? I vaguely remember something, but I was thinking it was a British airline. I may be imagining too.
This aircraft (the 330 and 360) was very present in my aviation salad days so as fugly as it is, it’s still one of those that means something to me. I remember living under the approach to 31 at SPI and seeing Mississippi Valley 330s, and American Eagle 360’s flying in. I remember even back then compared to the Metro’s, F-27s, Saabs, Beech 99s, and even Navajo’s that operated in here with airlines, the Shorts was a bulky fugly aircraft. But it was the ONLY one back then with 6 bladed props!!
That just looks so wrong.
The Twin Mustang fugly? C’mon ladies and gentlemen. Every one knows the engineers designed that aircraft because you can’t fit the egos of 2 military pilots in 1 cockpit very comfortably! Give credit where credit is due! 
I always imagined the aircraft splitting into two separate fuselages as the occupants couldn’t agree on what target to pursue!
Where they can detach for a short time and then come back together for landing.
I’ve always thought the “Trislander” was one fugly PoS…
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/be/Great_barrier_airline.jpg
Also concur with the following (already submitted)
Add one more Fugly (though not a PoS)
Gotta love the whale…
Cool pic. I’ve never seen this type a/c, honestly never even heard of it either…like you said faded away I guess?! 
I hate to admit it 
but I think the shorts is a cool a/c in a funny “wtf is a box doing in the air” sort of way 
