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Offline Imowface

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Worst A/C of ww2
« on: March 15, 2011, 04:39:56 PM »
I know there was a thread for the worst A/C of all time, but I am currious as to what everyone thinks the worst bird of WW2 is, my Vote goes to the Breda Ba.88, This planes performance was so poor, that in one case, out of three aircraft on a mission, 1 could not even get off the ground, and another, oncwe airbourn, was not able to make a turn, and was forced to fly streight from the mediterainian all the way to an italian airfield in north africa, it performed so bad that later in the war they removed all usefull equipment and it was used as decoys so that enemy planes would not shoot up the good a/c during raids on fields.

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Re: Worst A/C of ww2
« Reply #1 on: March 15, 2011, 06:18:08 PM »
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Re: Worst A/C of ww2
« Reply #2 on: March 15, 2011, 06:22:08 PM »
Breda Ba.88
Blackburn Roc
Bachem Ba 349
Boulton Paul Defiant
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Re: Worst A/C of ww2
« Reply #3 on: March 15, 2011, 06:31:42 PM »
Breda Ba.88
Boulton Paul Defiant
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I'm sure more will come to mind


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Re: Worst A/C of ww2
« Reply #4 on: March 15, 2011, 06:37:22 PM »
Sorry, Internet hiccup.
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Re: Worst A/C of ww2
« Reply #5 on: March 15, 2011, 08:18:41 PM »

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Re: Worst A/C of ww2
« Reply #6 on: March 15, 2011, 09:59:21 PM »
Can't have a list of the worst without including the Fairey Battle....
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Re: Worst A/C of ww2
« Reply #7 on: March 15, 2011, 10:33:23 PM »
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Re: Worst A/C of ww2
« Reply #8 on: March 15, 2011, 10:34:46 PM »
Can't have a list of the worst without including the Fairey Battle....

I think that one might be the tops.  To send those guys into combat in that thing was criminal.
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Re: Worst A/C of ww2
« Reply #9 on: March 15, 2011, 11:33:23 PM »
IMO the guys who said the German planes above were not actually bad, worst fighter IMO was p-400 (no I did not mean p40)
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Re: Worst A/C of ww2
« Reply #10 on: March 16, 2011, 12:10:11 AM »
The P-39/P-400 certainly wasn't a world class performer by the start of the war but I don't think it can lay claim to worst of the worst.

Fairy Battle may be in the running though. :)
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Re: Worst A/C of ww2
« Reply #11 on: March 16, 2011, 12:27:28 AM »
Fairey Battle was merely obsolete.  Boulton Paul Defiant was a bad idea.
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Re: Worst A/C of ww2
« Reply #12 on: March 16, 2011, 12:34:01 AM »
IMO the guys who said the German planes above were not actually bad, worst fighter IMO was p-400 (no I did not mean p40)
the p39 is no wheres near close to being the worst plane of ww2. some pilots really liked it. and it got some respectable aces. plus the russians really liked it.

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Re: Worst A/C of ww2
« Reply #13 on: March 16, 2011, 12:44:19 AM »
Bolton Paul Defiant-Hurricane with a turret? :headscratch:
Fairey Battle-no. just no.
YB-40-like sending a Sherman to protect a Ferrari

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Re: Worst A/C of ww2
« Reply #14 on: March 16, 2011, 01:07:04 AM »
Boulton-Paul Defiant may have been one of the worst ideas ever.
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