Another SuperJumbo!

[skyring]

OK, this has got to be one of the ugliest aircraft ever built. The Boeing 747 is no oil painting, but this variant, the prototype Large Cargo Freighter, is just horrible.

Not that the Airbus A380 is a glorious sight, neither.

Comments

[madame-urushiol.livejournal.com]

That plane is U-G-L-Y! It looks like a Thermos, or a platypus flying ass-first. My finely-tuned aesthetic sense is highly offended. What are they thinking?!? *shudder*

[elhamisabel.livejournal.com]

It's very practical in terms of cargo, though. As there are no paying passengers who fly with it, aesthetical aspects were never the issue.

[skyring.livejournal.com]

Well, no, that's not the way it works. The paying passengers are the ones inside looking out at the rest of us plucking our eyeballs from their sockets and stamping on them.

Well

[woosang.livejournal.com]

The Galaxie was not a beauty. The variant of the 747 looks slightly better then that!

[allysther.livejournal.com]

It reminds me of a corn dog.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corn_dog

But in a bad way.

[cathepsut.livejournal.com]

It's a sausage giving birth to a plane...

[gir1fromipanema.livejournal.com]

*lol* What cathepsut said!
Does it fly?

[skyring.livejournal.com]

First flight yesterday. It's apparently so that they can do like Airbus does with large aircraft components - build them in different locations and then fly them to a final assembly point. Maybe it will look better when they paint it up, though I suppose that's a given, as it can't look much worse.