Brewster Saved Their Worst For Last: Brewster XA-32

In this video, we take a look at the Brewster XA-32, a late-World War II American dive bomber and ground attack aircraft. We first talk about Brewster as a company, from their start making carriages to moving into the realm of aviation in the interwar era. We talk about their horrid track record in WW2, making all manner of terrible designs, before moving to their final design in the XA-32, designed when their other designs hadn't yet begun disappointing. We talk about how, on paper, the XA-32 appeared to be an incredibly powerful design that, if successful, may have been able to perform in a multitude of roles, from dive and level bombing to ground attacking to even serving as a fighter. We then talk about the inevitable problems in development, suffering from delays and poor manufacturing, and how because Brewster was awful as a company, the XA-32 had little chance of succeeding. We talk about the XA-32's eventual flight and disappointing performance, and end by talking about how its failure ended up spelling the end of Brewster.