Toxn Posted August 31, 2015 Report Share Posted August 31, 2015 This thread is for aeronautical failures of various stripes: flying machines that didn't work as intended or did, but were intended for something stupid. Note: no WWII German aircraft may be entered, as the thread would rapidly become about nothing else... Hurrr. First up, the classics: A reasonable design attached to a seriously flawed concept. This is a difficult one for me, because I have a raging hard-on for all things airship. Nonetheless; having a vehicle with a mean time between crashes close to that of a WWI biplane, but a cost and crew size closer to a navy vessel was not a good idea. Maybe now that weather radar is a thing? Sigh, why are all the things I love dumb? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Collimatrix Posted August 31, 2015 Report Share Posted August 31, 2015 NATO estimates of Warsaw Pact aviation were a mixed bag. Sometimes they guessed that WP stuff was way worse than their own for basically no reason, such as when they estimated that the AA-2 Atoll air to air missile had vastly inferior performance to the AIM-9B... despite the fact that the AA-2 was a clone of the AIM-9. But if Yakovlev had been able to crank up the YAK-38 to match the NATO estimates of its performance, the entire bureau and entire factory staff would have been given a triple vodka ration, because the plane was junk. Still, it was a fairly sharp looking bird. The trainer is another story... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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SuperComrade Posted August 31, 2015 Report Share Posted August 31, 2015 Inb4 someone posts a picture of the F-35 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scolopax Posted August 31, 2015 Report Share Posted August 31, 2015 The story for this one is kind of sad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toxn Posted August 31, 2015 Author Report Share Posted August 31, 2015 Anything earlier than 1918 is kind of cheating as well Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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