The Botha
An acquaintance of mine of many years ago flew Bothas in WWII.
He said his first sight of a Botha was arriving at OCU and seeing the fuselage and tail of a Botha, standing like a monument, pointing vertically skywards in a neighbouring field.
Apparently, the Botha had a deathtrap of a fuel system. At start up, the fuel selector could too easily be turned too far and into the 'reserve' sector, thereby switching fuel supply away from the main tanks to the separate reserve tank.
This contained just enough fuel to start up, taxi to the hold, run up, line up, take off and get about 50 feet off the ground.
Then both engines would suffer a dead cut and the aircraft, heavily laden for the sortie and with its main tanks still brim-full of fuel, would have to do a dead stick landing off the aerodrome.
Good fun eh?
Broomstick.