23.08.2009, 00:51
AERIAL STURGEON Wrote:Maybe finns were so good 'cause much less weight without any carrier stuff in it, but still there are lots of planes not as good as the brewster, ryysteri, as we call it in finlandKG64_cnopicilin Wrote:I have that in my "Worlds worst aircraft" by Jim Winchester. It has lots of weird planesI have the same book. I'd take anything that you read in it with a grain of salt because the author was pretty clueless about a number of things. One glaring example that springs to mind is the Brewster Buffalo. The author cites its performance at Midway as the F2A-3 as justification for it being "bad," yet completely ignores its amazing success (as the F2A-1/B-239) on the Finnish front. The most successful single airframe in aviation history was a Buffalo flown by two pilots.