Parnall Pipit, biplane produced for possible purchase by the Royal Navy: “The first of two prototypes … was flown in 1928, but crashed when a tailplane spar failed as a result of flutter. The second prototype …, with a 520 hp F.XIIS engine and many other changes, was also lost as a result of violent flutter which fractured the sternpost whereupon the vertical tail surfaces were carried away. Further development of the Pipit was then abandoned.” It is a bad day in piloting when your tail falls off. Wikipedia article on the Pipit says the pilot in the first incident went down with his aircraft, and survived. The second crash pilot parachuted away.
http://1000aircraftphotos.com/Contributions/EwingBill/10860.htm
Only a little more successful – the Percival P.6 Mew Gull. Five were built.
c/n E.20A, G-ACND, destroyed by fire July 7, 1945
c/n E.21, G-AEKL, destroyed by bombing June 1940
c/n E.22, ZS-AHM, G-AEXF, still airworthy
c/n E.23, G-AEMO, ZS-AHO, crashed September 31, 1936
c/n E.24, G-AFAA, destroyed by fire July 7, 1945
http://1000aircraftphotos.com/Contributions/DentonNeville/7984.htm
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