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Aircraft Directory

The World's Worst Aircraft

To the right is a short video showing footage of the Hiller VZ-1, a one-man flying platform, which is one of the aircraft featured in The World's Worst Aircraft, by Jim Winchester, a Barnes & Noble Book, 2007.

The Aircraft Index section of Winged Victory: Women in Aviation will, eventually, have in-depth articles on all these planes.

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Behind the Times
Aviation Traders ATL-90 Accountant (1957)

Blohm und Voss BV 238 )1944
Boeing XPBB-1 Sea Ranger (1942)
Boulton Paul Defiant (1937)
Bristol Brabazon (1949)

Convair 880/990 (1959 and 1961)
Convair B-32 Dominator (1942)

Douglas TBD Devastator (1935)
Douglas XB-42 Mixmaster (1942)

Fairey Albacore (1938)
Fairey Battle (1936)
Fairey Fulmar (1937)
Farman Jabiru (1923)

Republic XF-12 Rainbow (1946)
Royal Aircraft Factory B.E.2. (1912)

Saab Scandia 90A (1946)
Saunders-Roe Princess (1952)
Shenyang J-8 "Finback" (1969)
Short SB.6 Seamew (1953)
Short Sterling (1939)
Short Sturgeon and SB.3 (1946)
Sopwith LRTTR (1916)

Bogus Concepts
Aerocar (1949)
Ahrens AR-404 (1976)
Allied Aviation XLRA-1 and -2 (1941)
Antonov KT Flying Tank (1942)
Armstrong Whitworth Ape (1926)
Armstrong Whitworth F.K.6 (1916)
Avro Avrocar (1959)
Avro Tudor (1945)

Bachem BA 349 Natter (1945)
Bell FM Airacuda (1937)
Blackburn A.D. Scout (Sparrow) (1915)
Blackburn Blackburd (1918)
Blackburn TB (1915)
Blohm und Voss BV 40 (1944)
Boeing 2707 (1960s)
Boeing Sonic Cruister (2001-2002)
Boeing XB-15 (1937)
Bonney Gull (1925)
Bristol Braemar, Pullman and Tramp (1917-1919)
Bristol Buckingham and Buckmaster (1943)
British Aerospace Nimrod AEW.3 (1980s)

Caproni CA.60 Noviplano (1921)
Convair NB-36 (1955)
Convair R3Y Tradewind (1950)
Convair F2Y Sea Dart (1953)
Convair XFY-1 Pogo (1954)

Fairey Rotodyne (1957)
Fieseler F1 103R-IV Flying Bomb (1944)
Fisher P-75 Eagle (1943)
Focke-Wulf TA-154 Moskito (1943)
Fokker V8 (1917)

General Aircraft Fleet Shadower (1940)
General Dynamics F-111B (1960s)
Gloster Meteor (Prone Pilot) (1954
General Dynamics/McDonnell Douglas A-12 Avengers II (cancelled 1991)
Goodyear Inflatoplane (1956)

Hafner Rotabuggy Flying Jeep (1943)
Hiller VZ-1 Pawnee (1955)
Hughes H-4 Hercules 'Spruce Goose' (1947)
Hughes XH-17 Flying Crane (1952)

Kokusai KI-105 Ohtori (1945)

Learavia Learfan 2100 (1981)

Martin P6M Seamaster (1955)
McDonnell XF-85 Goblin (1948)
Mitsubishi F-2 (1995)
Myasishchev M-50 'Bounder' (1959)

North American XB-70A Valkyrie (1964)
Northrop XP-79B (1945)

Pemberton Billing (Supermarine) Nighthawk (1917)
PZL-Mielec M-15 Belphegor (1973)

Rockwell XFV-12A (1976)
Ryan X-13 Vertijet (1955

Saunders Roe S.R./A.1 (1947)
Snecma Colèoptére (1959)

Tupolev Ant-20 Maksim Gorkii (1934)
Tupolev TU-144 (1968)

Wight Quadrupleplane (1917)

Yokosuka Ohka (1944)

Power Problems
Avro Manchester (1939)

Baade (VEB) 152 (1958)
Barling XNBL-1 (1923)
Beardmore Inflexible (1928)
Bell HSL-1 (1953)
Bell X-1 and X-2 (1951)
Bell XP-77 (1944)
Blackburn Botha (1938)
Blackburn Roc (1938)
Boeing Model 273 (XF7B-1) 1933
Breda BA.88 Lince (1936)
Brewster Buffalo (1937)
Bristol 188 (1962)

Caproni Campini N.1 (1940)
Caproni-Stipa (1932)
Convair YF-102 Delta Dagger (1953)
Curtiss XP-62 (1944)

Dassault Balzac Mirage IIIV (1962)
Dornier DO X (1929)
Douglas XA2D Skyshark (1951)
Douglas X-3 Stiletto (1952)

Handley Page Hereford (1938)
Heinkel He 177 'Greif' (1939-1945)
Hiller HJ-1 Hornet (1950)
Hughes XF-11 (1946)

McDonnell F3H Demon (1950)
Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet (1941)
Messerschmitt Me 321/323 Gigant (1941)

Percival P.74 (1956)

Republic XF-84H (1955)
Republic XF-91 Thunderceptor (1949)
Ryan FR-1 Fireball (1944)

Vought F6U-1 Pirate (1946)
Vought F7U Cutlass (1948)

Yakovlev Yak-38 'Forger' (1971)

Construction Problems
Albatros D.III (1916)

Beechcraft Starship 2000A (1986)
Blériot biplanes (1917-1925)
Boeing/Sikorsky RAH-66 Comanche (1996)
Brewster Bermuda/Buccaneer (1941)

Christmas Bullet (1918)

Dassault Mercure (1971)
De Havilland Comet (1949)
De Havilland D.H.91 Albatross (1937)

Focke-Wulf FW 200 Condor (1937)

Kalinin K-7 (1933)

PZL LWS.6 Zubr (Bison) (1936)

Langley Aerodrome (1903)

Phillips Multiplanes (1893-1907)

Royal Aircraft Factory Re.8 (1916)

Seddon Mayfly (1910)

Unintentionally Unstable
Avia S.199 'Mule' (1947)

Blackburn Firebrand (1942)

Curtiss SB2C Helldiver (1940)
Curtiss SO3C Seamew (1939)
Curtiss XP - 55 Ascender (1943)

De Bruyére C1 (1917)

Gee Bee Racers (1913 - 1933)

Grumman XF10F Jaguar (1952)

Lavochkin Lagg-1 and -3
Lavochkin La-250 (1956)
Lohner Type AA (1916)

Messerschmitt ME 210 (1939)
Mignit Flying Flea (1933)

Northrop YB-35/YB-49 Flyng Wings (1946)
Northrop XP-56 Black Bullet (1953)

Rolls-Royce 'Flying Bedstead' (1954)

Supermarine Swift (1951)

Tarrant Tabor (1919)
Tupolev TU-22 'Blinder' (1959)

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