
Infamous Aircraft
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Many aircraft, some famous and some rare, gained a reputation for being difficult to fly and sometimes downright dangerous. This book looks at some of the worst culprits over a period spanning World War I to the age of supersonic flight. The following aircraft are included . . .
B.E.2: The Royal Flying Corps went to war in it in 1914. The B.E. was easy to fly and very stable-but it was difficult to maneuver and very easy to shoot down.
Tarrant Tabor: The Tabor was grotesque, a massive misfit of an experimental bomber that predictably came to grief on its first flight.
Avro Manchester: The twin-engine Manchester would fly all the way to Berlin and back-only to burst into flames over its own base.
Messerschmitt Me 210: The Me 210 was developed as a successor to Goering's Destroyer, the Bf 110. It was a disaster with a phenomenal accident rate.
Martin B-26 Marauder: They called the B-26 the "widowmaker," fast and powerful, with some savage characteristics.
Reichenberg IV: The manned version of the V-1 flying bomb was a desperation weapon, and its pilots intended to fly suicide missions against Allied shipping.
Tu-144: Rushed prematurely into its test program to beat the Anglo-French Concorde, the Tu-144 was intended to be Russia's supersonic dream.
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- Cover
- 1: Death Over the Trenches: the BE.2
- 2: Sopwith Camel: the Two-edged Sword
- 3: Death of a Giant: the Airship R. 101
- 4: The Mignet Flying Flea: a Dream that WentWrong
- 5: Me 209: the Deadly Record-breaker
- 6: Trouble with Engines: the Avro Manchesterand Hawker Typhoon
- 7: Terrible Twins
- 8: One-way Mission: Germany's Suicide Aircraft
- 9: Japan's 'Flaming Coffins'
- 10: The Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet: Revolutionaryand Deadly
- 11: The Parasite Fighters
- 12: France's Experimentals
- 13: Combat Flying Boats: the Jet Age's Lost Cause
- 14: Russia's Early Jets: the Ugly Ducklings
- 15: The X-Craft
- 16: US Combat Aircraft: the Frustrating 'Fifties
- 17: Vertical flight: the Uphill Path
- Index
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