Worst Piston Monoplane Fighter of WWII

[swampyankee]

If one accepts prototypes, there's always the various experimental fighters, like the XP-54, XP-55, XP-57, and XP-77. For something in large scale production, the Blacburn Roc wins the booby* prize.


* Except boobies can fly well

 

[Graeme]

Not one of Russia's finest engineering moments...

(Air International March 1993)

 

[fliger747]

Some fighters relied on a mechanism to compress the oleo length on retraction. Certainly a Corsair's fully extended Oleo's wouldn't fit into the wells.

 

[wuzak]

If one accepts prototypes, there's always the various experimental fighters, like the XP-54, XP-55, XP-57, and XP-77. For something in large scale production, the Blacburn Roc wins the booby* prize.


* Except boobies can fly well

The XP-56 was pretty woeful.

 

[Kevin J]

The XP-56 was pretty woeful.

I don't think that you can call any experimental fighter that never entered service in WW2, the worst fighter, but you could add something like the Blackburn Firebrand because it underwent a re-design to a torpedo strike aircraft so that it could do something useful after WW2.