 | What Was the worst Aircraft of WWII?| Old Threads Discuss What Was the worst Aircraft of WWII? in the Old Stuff forums; 617 was under direct instructiongs NOT to jettison their tallboys unless it was life or death
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06-28-2004, 03:55 PM
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#151 | | Master of Ewes
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617 was under direct instructiongs NOT to jettison their tallboys unless it was life or death
| what, so they would be using them in a defensive capibility, like if they didn't drop them they would die??
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07-23-2004, 09:57 PM
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| The worst was in my opinion the French Cauldron C.714 Cyclone. It was slow, turned awfully and had bad climb rate. Its' weapon was really weak. And very often it had lost its' horizontal stab when max speed was gained (especially in diving). Sounds enough for me. | |
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07-24-2004, 09:22 AM
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07-24-2004, 11:15 AM
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| There can also be one more worst aircraft. It's Russian LaGG-3. The Lavochkin-Gudkov-Gorbunov got a nickname Lakirovannyj-Gvarantovannyj-Grob (Varnished-Guaranteed-Grave) given because of its' tendency to crash often. It was wooden made mostly, ussualy very bad quality. | |
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07-24-2004, 12:38 PM
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07-24-2004, 02:20 PM
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| The LaGG-3 was a very bad plane. But it was better than the I-15s and I-16s the Russians were still using at the time.
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07-24-2004, 02:29 PM
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| Sure it was much better, but the quality of production was horrible. These planes were "able" to fall apart while flying!
That is why pilots sometimes prefered I-16 or I-153 (or MiG-1/3 when it was possible) than LaGG-3. The LaGGs' only good point was it quite nice overlook. | |
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08-03-2004, 03:04 PM
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| the sowrdfish they where WW1 carrier based planes only bye luck they took down the rader of the DKM bismark. if there was a bf-109 near bye there would have goten sloughterd.  | |
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08-03-2004, 08:32 PM
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Country: | They didn't take down the RADAR on the Bismarck. They hit the rudder, under heavy AA coming up from the Bismarck. It wasn't luck at all, it was a very daring and skillful attack.
That's the thing, the Swordfish didn't have to meet any 109s, so it was perfect for the job of taking on the Kriegsmarine. And it did its job very well.
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08-03-2004, 09:05 PM
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08-04-2004, 01:16 PM
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Country: | and the swordfish wasn't a WWI plane at all, and to give you some idea of the skill involved, at some points they were flying so low that the AA guns COULDN'T be depressed far enough to hit them, and no planes were lost during the attack, however 4 chrased on landing...................
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08-04-2004, 01:53 PM
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Country: | a single 109 could have taken down all the stringbags, assuming it had enough ammo and fuel......................
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08-04-2004, 02:09 PM
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Country: | Would the attack have happened if the Brits knew there was going to be fighter opposition??? Sacrifice a few men to destroy a BB???
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08-04-2004, 02:19 PM
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Country: | i doubt it, that's not our style, we would wait for another opertunity..............
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