Worst Piston Monoplane Fighter of WWII

• Mar 16, 2019

• #121

swampyankee

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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

 

• Mar 17, 2019

• #122

Graeme

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



(Air International March 1993)

 

• Mar 17, 2019

• #123

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fliger747

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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.

 

• Mar 18, 2019

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wuzak

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swampyankee said:

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

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The XP-56 was pretty woeful.

 

• Mar 18, 2019

• #125

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Kevin J

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wuzak said:

The XP-56 was pretty woeful.

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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.