And in the end, the Swordfish was just what was needed. S leek, fast, and heavily armed, Bismarck was the newest battleship of the German Navy. She carried eight 15-inch main guns in four main ...

The Fairey Swordfish preyed viciously on enemy shipping ... In other words, while pilots of the Douglas SBD “Dauntless” dive bomber lovingly claimed that their plane’s initials stood ...

Manufactured by Fairey Aviation (eventually acquired by Westland Aircraft in 1960)—the same company that produced another famous WWII “flying fish” (so to speak), the Swordfish biplane ...

Commodore Edwin Whittle, the owner of the album, photographed the dramatic moment a Fairey Swordfish biplane crashed during take-off and plummeted into the sea. The wreckage of the aircraft can ...

They found the Fairey Swordfish at a depth of about 60 meters. The biplane torpedo bomber was used by England’s Royal Navy in World War II, as well as the 1930s. Nearly 2,400 Fairey Swordfish ...

Fairey Aviation was born in a western London suburb ... including the Firefly, Swordfish, and Gannett. With peace on the horizon in the closing months of WWII, manufacturers then building military ...

I joined the family firm Blackburn Aircraft which had a shadow factory at Sherburn-in-Elmet making Fairey Swordfish for a limited time. The firm had taken on four young ladies as “Progress ...

The aircraft had to be descending steadily to ... a pilot and observer train in a Fairey Swordfish for a war they don’t know is coming. NASM (1A43540) Called “Bats” after the disks he ...