First, I probably should apologize because this was a Control line scale, not an R/C job.

About 1963, the father of a friend gave me some old WW-2 books.  In a sillouette book, there was a 3-view and a couple pictures of a plane that got my fancy.  The Armstrong-Whitworth Whitely.  So ugly, I just had to make it my first scratch built scale job.  It also gave me an opportunity to use what I was learning in Drafting class at the College I was attending.

Didn't have much in the way of documentation or clear pictures, and the three-view was about 2"X 2", but when I was finished my friend's father recognized it immediately.  He'd seen many of them while staioned in Brittain and Benghazi, Lybia.  Told me the blokes used to frequently overload them, which periodically resulted in a fireball at the end of the runway.

Never flew it, couldn't get the two engines to run at the same time, and while I could taxi with the O.K. Cub running, the McCoy RH .19 couldn't do that.

The plane disintegrated due to basement flooding while I was in the AF, oddly enough while stationed in Trippoli, Lybia just down the coast from Benghazi.

But, with the slab sides, straight lines, it was rather easy to scratch build for a 19 year old.

I've seen one model at Toledo a few years ago, and the model looked a lot better than the pictures

Moocowfish...........I am worried about you.............what else do you "love" in the way of aeroplanes?    ................

Just spotted this thread: 

Just my 2 cents:  My love for british aircraft has been expounded by how I have named my pets.

My first "English Bull Terrier"  (note "British") was named "Whitely"  They had very similar looks. Especially in the nose. As the dog was white, it resembled the "Costal Command" Whitleys

Denis

Ugly airplanes ?

Some prize winners at : http://www.popularaviation.com/UgliestPlane.asp?Page=1

If it's an airplane and it flies -- it's not ugly -just unusual.

CHuck Curtis