1) Iranians had some luck. Our big chance never came <a good thing>.
2) Complicated tools need maintenance. It's life.
3) Yut.
4) Welcome to the pack.
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Top 10 Worst Aircraft Ever...
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1) Iranians had some luck. Our big chance never came <a good thing>.
2) Complicated tools need maintenance. It's life.
3) Yut.
4) Welcome to the pack.
My candidates:
For Rotory Wing-
Gold plated to the nth degree. While it did demonstrate some amazing technology for the time you'd think they would know better than to try and sell an ungodly expensive (even compaired to the apache that followed) aircraft to the Army when they were loosing as many helo's to ground fire in Vietnam.
For Fixed Wing-
Talk about building an aircraft for the sake of being different. If they (the Original Partners) had wanted an incredible low level platform we'd have sold the F-111 to them. If they'd wanted an incredible fighter/interceptor we were taking orders for F-15's. In the spirit of being different they tried to do both, on a budget, with multiple sources of demands to make happy. And in true british fashion, they made it ugly while doing it. Ive yet to hear a single positive thing ever said about this aircraft and that includes from people that flew it.
For Rotory Wing-
Gold plated to the nth degree. While it did demonstrate some amazing technology for the time you'd think they would know better than to try and sell an ungodly expensive (even compaired to the apache that followed) aircraft to the Army when they were loosing as many helo's to ground fire in Vietnam.
For Fixed Wing-
Talk about building an aircraft for the sake of being different. If they (the Original Partners) had wanted an incredible low level platform we'd have sold the F-111 to them. If they'd wanted an incredible fighter/interceptor we were taking orders for F-15's. In the spirit of being different they tried to do both, on a budget, with multiple sources of demands to make happy. And in true british fashion, they made it ugly while doing it. Ive yet to hear a single positive thing ever said about this aircraft and that includes from people that flew it.
CWJones411
IRR
Nope. Just naive and ignorant.
Redux
Well-Known Member
+1 on the grossly underpowered not so Screamin Demon, whatta pig. My "class picture" was us in front of one, even the A4 that we had was "cleaner" to a 18 year old kid that didn't know his ass from a hole in the ground.
The F3 just looked "big" if nothing else but as they said it had a "modern" hydraulic system which it did at the time I guess.
The F3 just looked "big" if nothing else but as they said it had a "modern" hydraulic system which it did at the time I guess.
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Blutonski816
Guest
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My favorite quote from the wikipedia article for the XFY:
It felt like it was written with such disdain that I just could not help but laugh for a second...
Redux
Well-Known Member
Lobster
Well-Known Member
The Phantom's older brother, the F3H-1 and F3H-2 (F-3B) Demon.
The really early birds had the POS J40 engine, and most of them were sent to Memphis (Millington) to act as training aids.
Also, even though touted as an "all weather" fighter, it could not fly in "visible moisture" or it would flame out. It was around until 1964 and the folks who flew it were glad to get the F-4.
Is it just me or do these things look like pigeons?
If anyone has been to the transportation museum at Ft. Eutis VA. They can check out some weird experimental aircraft that are pretty neat on display. I didn't take pictures while I was there but here are some of the pictures from the Ft. Eutis website. These were aircraft that were made but never put into production, all looks kinda sci fi
Wouldn't want to fall off
Wouldn't want to fall off
For Fixed Wing-
Talk about building an aircraft for the sake of being different. If they (the Original Partners) had wanted an incredible low level platform we'd have sold the F-111 to them. If they'd wanted an incredible fighter/interceptor we were taking orders for F-15's. In the spirit of being different they tried to do both, on a budget, with multiple sources of demands to make happy. And in true british fashion, they made it ugly while doing it. Ive yet to hear a single positive thing ever said about this aircraft and that includes from people that flew it.
The F-111 was not the premier attack platform it would become when they started developing the Tornado, and the F-15E was still 15 years away. I would never include it in any 'worst aircraft' list, especially with its fine combat record.
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Blutonski816
Guest
Certainly not the worst….. just not viable. But still interesting:
The Convair F2Y (F-7) Sea Dart
I remember seeing one outside the SD Aerospace Museum...
Lights Out
New Member
Spot on...
An H-2 pilot told me once that some of the mods to the aircraft over the years were a direct result of someone getting killed by the SeaSprite (2nd engine, 4-bladed tail rotor, certain hatch latches, to name a few).