What Was the worst Aircraft of WWII?

[cheddar cheese]

you'd think there would be one in the BoB nmodel kit

[the lancaster kicks ass]

well there would have to be one in the BBMF before they could put it in the BBMF model kit.................

[cheddar cheese]

there probably is, they're just too ashamed to use it

[plan_D]

I have a BBMF model kit, from a long time ago. I never actually built the models, it's still in the box. One Lancaster, one Spitfire and one Hurricane.

[Tom]

Maybe I should lurk for a little longer, but I wanted to throw another airframe into the fray-- the Me163 Comet.
"Flight Journal" made a pretty good case for the "worst fighter" prize, given the unstable nature of the peroxide fuel, diversion of resources from other projects, low kill rate, difficulty in landing/take-off, and problems with ground handling.
Still, must have been fun while the fuel lasted, even if you were tempted to bail on short final if the landing didn't shape up well.

[kiwimac]

Airfix used to make a 1:72 Defiant. The Roc was pretty awful but I have to give pride of place to the Fairey Battle. Normally I can find something good to say about an aircraft but I'm afraid the Battle (hehe) is too much for me.

Kiwimac

[cheddar cheese]

it looked good

[Lightning Guy]

Tom, the Me-163 was a very novel idea (a bit of a stretch for the techonology available perhaps, but a novel idea).

Kiwi, I can say some good things about the crews that flew the Battle. That required a special kind of bravery, but of course I feel the same way about the crews flying the TBD.

[the lancaster kicks ass]

i think thew 163 was juat ahead of it's time, like many of the german ideas....................

[SKIBC]

Originally Posted by Lightning Guy

So you drop them at several points along the coast, especially at Calais. They were doing it with ordinary raids. A few scattered Tallboy strikes along the coast would have kept Jerry totally guessing.

they didnt have enuf tallboys to waste them like that. 617 was under direct instructiongs NOT to jettison their tallboys unless it was life or death.

never mind thats an old topic i got mixed up

[the lancaster kicks ass]

it wasn't just 617 that dropped tallboys, No.9 did it too, but i think that on the morning of the 6th of june 1944 they should have been put in some of the batteries that the paratroopers had to take with high casualties.......................

[Lightning Guy]

That wouldn't have been that easy. Alot of the guns (like the ones attacked by US Army Rangers at Point du Hoc) had been moved. In order to attack them, but air or by ground, you have to know where they are.

[plan_D]

The Tallboys would be dropped on those in imobile batteries like the Todt battery. A lot of the artillery was silenced by the counter-artillery in Dover but those ones in the huge concrete by bunkers would have been better dealt with by Tallboys instead of American, British and Canadian ground forces who had just come off the beach. Or in the 6th Airbornes case just landed in the middle of the night (Merville Battery).

[the lancaster kicks ass]

they were a bit late in coming though, the first tallboys were used on the night 8/9th june 1944, i think....................

[plan_D]

I know, I'm saying IF they could have been used.