Lankhaar, I think you have read the thread title incorrectly. It is only about British aircraft, and the Me 210 is not british!

Anyway, to add my 2 p´s worth, I´d say the worst british aircraft of WW II was the Botha. It was a complete failure in all respects. Most other aircraft that failed in their designed role had a second lease of live in some other roles.
Albemarle was “useful” as a glider tug/para ship
Fairey Battle was past it´s sell by date when war was declared but did well in the training role
Manchester– there was nothing wrong with the basic design. Only engine problems. See what happened when it was powered by real engines
Hector a good aircraft, but flying in the wrong war! No fault of the aircraft
Barracuda. I think it was more of a training problem for the pilots. It sure looks ugly, but I think most of it´s bad reputation has to do with Stringbag pilot being let loose on the aircraft without thorough check-outs. You can not do Stringbag stuff on the Barra.
Defiant, nothing wrong with the aircraft per see. It was just based on wrong assumstions about the defence of British Isles. It did resonably well as nightfighter when few other things were available.

I could go on and on.

unwilling to flex in most directions.
Ben

Nasho – fascinating.

Guys, I know nothing about what you are talking about, BUT, would like to add my 2 p´s worth. As I´ve read, the Wimpy was unusable as a glider tug Because of excessive flexing of the fuselage! It is a long time since I read this, and this is purely from memory. But how many Wimpies have you seen as used as glider tugs? I´m willing to be proved wrong, as usual:eek::eek:

Nashio, maybe the balsa/glue combination in your experiment reacts different to alloy rivited/bolted together?? I just do not know, just a questionþ

I do not know what sources AD has, but the only thing available from the official body handling the investigation is on the following link:
http://www.ntsb.gov/ntsb/brief.asp?ev_id=20090213X13613&key=1

Not much I´m afraid.

AD is probably useing various newspaper reports to come up with the stuff in the first post. We all know how much we can trust the newspapers:rolleyes:

Is the price good??
We do not know if the engines are included in the price and if they are, how much live they have left. A PW/GE or what ever is on the wing is not cheap and you are going to need four of them! What is the lifetime left on various other lifed items? Does the aircraft need an extended C or even D check?

Aircraft shopping is serious buisness as some airlines have found out in the past. I can remember one european airline which bought three A-300B4´s in the american desert about 10 years ago. The price was unbelievable, they just could not pass this deal!! The aircraft are then ferried to Hamburg for freight conversion, when there it was found out that they were due for an a D check (OK it was in for heavy maintainance anyway!). One day the companies rep walked onto the shop floor to find the mechanic hoisting the engines off the wings of all three aircraft. He was, understandibly, a bit cross. Only to be told that the engines had not been included in the sale:eek: Yes, some heads were left rolling within the company after that Airbus incident.

I can think of many more instances where airlines have swallowed a “too good to be true” deals, and in some instances they have been left bankrupt for not reading the small print.

Really great news:D You can never have too many Mossies!

I´ll never forget the day in August 2000 when me and my friend visited the Museum and had a chance to sit in the cockpit of the prototype:D Just great! The Mossie looks like a big aircraft when you stand beside it, but boy, was it cramped inside!!! We were not very big at the time, my friend and I, and didn´t wear the flying clothing of 1940. It was still positively cramped in there. Looking out the window and seeing the two massive Merlins on each side, I could just about imagine the noise in there with 1940´s headsets/flying helmets on. My admiration for the men that flew Mossies into battle grew a lot after that visit to the cockpit. They were made of sterner stuff than I´am!!

This is a late big THANK YOU to they guys at the museum for the chance to experience this:D:D

Thank you HP for a most informative post.

I hope you will not be treating your Storch like they did in that youtube link you posted:eek:

Fantastic news. Congratulations to all involved in the restoration.
Your new toy looks fab HP!:D