Over the last century, several fighter aircraft have earned the nickname "flying coffin" due to their dangerous design flaws. The Royal B.E.2, Brewster Buffalo, and Lavochkin-Gorbunov-Gudkov LaGG-3 ...

https://doi.org/10.2307/jj.11033251.2 https://www.jstor.org/stable/jj.11033251.2 The Brewster XF2A-1 naval fighter made its first flight in December 1937 because the ...