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At the Fargo Air Museum we volenteers have had a lengthy discussion on the worst Naval Plane of WWII.
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Brewster Buccanneer/Bermuda. All the problems of the Buffallo with a larger airframe.
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The TBD performed as advertised in 1935. By 1941 it should have been long gone, but actually did well up to the Battle of Coral Sea, argue pilot skill or luck. To call it a "flying death trap" meant it was unsafe anytime it was in the air. History has it placed accordingly. It's an aircraft that one would not want to being into combat in 1942, but it was far from a "flying death trap" unlike an aircraft like the Breda Ba.88.The Devastator, OTOH, was a flying death trap with performance in service far below its manufacturer's specs and should have been retired long before Dec 1941.
I'm not really sure why the three choices* are these airplanes? Each of them was breaking a new ground when introduced, the monoplanes replacing biplanes.