Worst aircraft of WW2?

[cheddar cheese]

The Battle wasnt bad either - Just hopelessly outdated.

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

you kidding me!! she was obsolete by the time she'd entered service.......

 

[FLYBOYJ]

Lets put a Breda 88 and a Battle in a dogfight - "WAR OF THE WORSE"

 

[cheddar cheese]

The Breda 88 wont be able to take off if its in desert spec, so the Battle wins by default

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

damn it he's right........

 

[cheddar cheese]

I mean the 88 started off promising - Set several speed records before the war, had some good armament and reasonably powerful engines. Great! They ship them off to Africa to obliterrate Allied tanks, but to prevent engine failures they place dust covers over the radiators and other minor mods - all of a sudden, engine power is sapped and they cant even take off! So they leave them as decoys on airfields for the rest of their career

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

What speed records did she set??

 

[cheddar cheese]

In 1936 the prototype set 2 world over-distance speed records, and again in 1937. Thats all I know, I wonder if anyone else can elaborate on this, cos I cant find anything else about it.

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

well, i have infront of me the Guinness book of aircraft, a book in which all records made by aircraft are listed, a book in which no mention is made of the Breeda 88............

 

[cheddar cheese]

Hmmmm...I dunno why that is, I dont think its BS. Just about every site ive been to on the Breda Ba-88 mentions the setting of a speed-over-distance record.

 

[FLYBOYJ]

You got to go to the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI) site and they might have the record archived. The aircraft might of set a record for speed over a given distance based on the size, weight and engine HP.

 

[red admiral]

"In April 1937 Niclot established two world speed-over-distance records, averaging 517km/h over a 100km distance and 475km/h over a 1000km circuit. In December of that year he raised these speeds to 554km/h and 524km/h respectively."

 

[Smokey]

Surely this is just as bad as the Battle?
http://www.aviationtrivia.homestead.com/Wellesley.html

 

[red admiral]

The Battle isn't that bad, just grossly underpowered. The Bloch MB. 150 didn't fly, so that is surely one of the worst.

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

how dare you suggest the wellesley was a bad plane, she was effective in her role and was mostly retired before the war, she had very good range meaning she set many records, and due to Dr. Barnes Wallis' geodetic frame was exeptionally strong yet still light(ish).........

 

[cheddar cheese]

Yeah the Wellesley was good.

The Breda Ba-88 Lince was the worst, trust me. I like the Breda Ba-88 loads, but it was dreadful. Utterly, hopelessly, completely dreadful.

 

[vanir]

I was just reading that at least one pilot of a Komet was literally melted in his seat by fumes from the fuel.

Now I dunno 'bout everyone else, there's worst aircraft of the war and then there's just plain nasty...

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

yeah i think the komet's a contender for title........

 

[FLYBOYJ]

I think based on it's combat record the Curtiss CW-21A has to be in the top 5.

 

[mosquitoman]

The Blackburn Botha is a contender- underpowered, undergunned and with a useless bombload