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Originally Posted by Vendor
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Just looking on that Wiki page the aircraft seems quite good. Nearly 2000 built and quite maneuverable if somewhat outdated.
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Originally Posted by JSLTIGER
I'm surprised no one has mentioned it thus far, so I will...I nominate the Brewster F2A Buffalo, another plane derided by its pilots as a flying coffin. The sad thing is that I grew up about a mile away from where they built these things back in WWII in Warminster, PA.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brewster_F2A_Buffalo
I'm sorry, but this one just has to take the cake...it's one fugly airplane. |
The Buffalo was not so much a bad plane as a plane faced with a truly superior enemy- the Zero. The Fins did a lot of damaged with their Buffalos against the Soviets. The main reason the Zero was so much better was that it was not weighed down with extra gear (Armor, radios etc) like US fighters such as the Buffalo.