The annals of aviation history are riddled with heroic failures, duds and disasters. The World’s Worst Aircraft takes a detailed but light-hearted look at these flying deathtraps – old and new – and asks: How on earth did they get off the drawing board? What went wrong? And did they enter service? From the deadly Comet Mk.1 airliner to Howard Hughes’ vast Spruce Goose and the XB-70 Valkyrie, this book features more than 150 aircraft that should never have been built. Illustrated with annotated photography or full colour artworks.

This book is available in two formats, with the larger format containing additional text and images.