[GonzoGOP]

He 162 got into service right at the end. That was the jet made out of wood, that occasionally came apart because we accidentally bombed the glue factory. Real short legs and not particularly well armed. Only virtue was that it could be built by unskilled labor from largely nonstrategic material.


Me 163 was the rocket/manned SAM.

We really need another thread for worst/most screwed up fighter to actually get a kill.

[Happy Rain]

When my late father was a GM on the USS Wasp (CV-7)three years before Pearl Harbor (it was sunk by a Jap sub in 1942)he told me about the F2A Brewster Buffalos the carrier had.

It was a total turkey and the only kills it scored was when the Finns used them against even worse Russian turkeys in the early days of WWII.

[valkyry1]

The He 162. If they had been able to develop that aircraft a little bit, and make it out of metal than wood, it might have been a game changer on bomber formations because they could have built scads of them.

[rmlew]

Would biplane fighters count? The British, Poles, Italians, and Soviets all used them.