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 torpedo ...
In a recent press release, the National Museum of the Royal Navy announced that it had secured a £50k grant of extra funding for the Fleet Air Arm Museum’s long-term and ongoing reconstruction of a ...
No complete examples of the plane remain, but one that crashed in 1944 is being painstakingly reconstructed The process is painstaking, fraught with difficulties and highly sensitive, but after a half ...
A World War II era bomber found by National Grid engineers is now being lifted from the sea bottom off the British coast in time for the 75 th anniversary of D-Day. This week, specialist divers and ...