Infamous Aircraft-Dangerous Designs & Their Vices

This book looks at some of the worst culprits over a period spanning from before the Great War through to the age of supersonic flight. 

Some of the aircraft covered are:
BE.2 - The RFC went to war in it in 1914. The BE was easy to fly and very stable - but it was difficult to maneuver and very easy to shoot down. 

 Tarrant Tabor - The Tabor was grotesque, a massive misfit of an experimental bomber that predictably came to grief on its first flight. 

 Avro Manchester - The twin-engined Manchester would fly all the way to Berlin and back - only to burst into flames over its own base. 

Messerschmitt Me 210 - The Me 210 was developed as a successor to Goering's Destroyer, the Bf110. It was a disaster with a phenomenal accident rate. 

 Martin B-26 Marauder - They called the B-26 the Widow-maker, fast and powerful, with some savage characteristics. 

 Reichenberg IV - a manned version of the V-1 flying bomb, was a weapon of pure desperation, its pilots intended to fly suicide missions against Allied shipping. 

Tu-144 - Rushed prematurely into its test program to beat the Anglo-French Concorde, the TU-144 was intended to be Russia's supersonic dream, instead it became a nightmare.