The Fairey Barracuda made history as the first English all-metal aircraft built for dive-bombing and torpedo-bombing purposes. The plane was ordered as a replacement for both the Swordfish ...

The bigger shock: It worked. The Fairey Swordfish prototype bore the initials TSR for torpedo, spotter, reconnaissance. It had a crew of three: pilot, observer (navigator), and telegraphist–air ...

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 ...