friend of my father's test flew one of these during WWI. Said torque was so bad he flew it with rudder and stick in max position against the torque. Said it was "very fast" and armed with one .50 cal

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Very probably the worst aircraft in history. The "flexible" wings lacked both internal or external bracing and were far to flimsy, while the tailplane was far to rigid. Two prototypes built and, not surprisingly, both suffered fatal crashes on their very first flights.

Does anyone know where I can find Dr. Christmas' description of his flight in Virginia, 1908. I am also looking for a deposition made by Robert Ions about that same flight that took off from his farm in Fairfax Station, Virginia.

The sad part was that he found pilots to fly it. There was a myth/legend/rumor that a husband bought his wife a Corsair, so she could kill herself, and did. Dr. Death.

Jack, I'm afraid that Stefan is correct, your dad's friend could not have flown a Christmas Bullet. For one thing he lived to tell the tale, something that neither of the Bullet's two pilots did. Two take-off, no landings, two crashes and two dead pilots, not exactly "the worlds safest aircraft".
I wonder what aircraft it was that your fathers friend test flew. You say that its torque was so bad that he flew with full opposite rudder and stick - that suggests very strongly that it was a rotary engined aircraft. Did he say it was caled 'The Bullet'? The Morane-Saulnier Type N and the Bristol M1C were both called 'The Bullet', they were both rotary engined and they both had a single machine gun; and the Morane had extremely sensitive controls (see the entries on this site); but they were both shoulder-winged monoplanes, not biplanes.

Jack, it's not likely that your father's friend flew one of these during WWI. The only two ever built crashed fatally on their respective first flights.

A friend of my father's test flew one of these during WWI. Said torque was so bad he flew it with rudder and stick in max position against the torque. Said it was "very fast" and armed with one .50 cal MG. My father's description of it that he got from his friend matches picture of plane very closely.

This is by far THE worlds worst aircraft! I also read that "Dr." Christmas claimed it to be "the worlds safest and most reliable aircraft" during an airshow, while displaying the aircraft!