2006-09-13 03:32:02 · 18 answers · asked by Santee 3 in News & Events ➔ Other - News & Events
Actually there was more than one WW2 airplane with that dubious destinction.
The first one that comes to my mind is the P-38 Lightning. If someone put that plane into a power-on dive, they could not recover from the dive because the airflow over the elevators was blocked and they didn't work. If there was enough altitude, the pilot could try chopping the power and doing an aileron roll but usually they ran out of sky before they ran out of time.
The other Widowmaker was the B-24 Liberator which had the nasty habit of breaking in half during a hard landing.
There were some other planes that got the Widowmaker description... Generally any plane that got the reputation for not bring the pilot or the crews back alive.
2006-09-13 03:34:37 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Widowmaker Plane
2016-10-16 07:32:07 · answer #2 · answered by tameezuddin 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
K-19.
The only reason i say that; Harrison Ford was in a movie called 'K-19 The Widowmaker'.
2006-09-13 03:36:11 · answer #3 · answered by snooch 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the B-26
2006-09-13 03:34:58 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The B-24 might be what you are thinking of. I've heard of it referred to as the flying coffin.
I'd also add my favorite WWII plane to fly, the T-6 Texan.
It's not that there is anything wrong with the design. It was an advanced trainer and as such a lot of them crashed w/new pilots at the controls.
2006-09-13 03:42:16 · answer #5 · answered by N3WJL 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
F104 Starfighter. An edgy plane even in the best of hands. Most of the fatalities were in the German Air Force.
2006-09-13 03:37:23 · answer #6 · answered by Never say Never 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When I was serving in Germany the Luftwaffe lost a lot of Starfighters
2006-09-13 04:00:20 · answer #7 · answered by Daddybear 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Thundercheif AKA the Lead Sled was the first one I thought of but as others have pointed out it's a common moniker
http://www.thefirearmsforum.com/showthread.php?t=508
2006-09-13 03:43:40 · answer #8 · answered by Scott L 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
that would be the northrop T-38A Talon. It is a basic role training aircaft used since 1948 to the present.It has a range of approx 1093miles and max speed at 813 miles per hour.
2006-09-13 03:42:55 · answer #9 · answered by rgrahamh2o 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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Americans use "airplane", probably because many seem unable to pronounce certain combinations of letters correctly. The correct prefix is, of course, "aero", as used in aero-engine, aeronautics, aerospace, aerodynamics etc.
2016-04-05 08:51:59 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋