Fleet Air Arm Legends - Volume 2 - Fairey Swordfish by Matthew Willis

Fleet Air Arm Legends - Volume 2: Fairey Swordfish by Matthew Willis



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English | 2022 | ISBN: 9781911658498, 1911658492 | 146 pages | PDF | 98 MB

Few aircraft encompass as many contradictions as the Fairey Swordfish – the legendary ‘Stringbag’ naval torpedo bomber was approaching antiquation at the start of the war yet struck mortal blows against some of the most powerful battleships in the Axis fleets. Naval aviation historian Matthew Willis explores how modern technology such as radar kept the Swordfish effective in the early years of the war and enabled it to find and hit the Italian fleet at Taranto, and the Bismarck in the Atlantic, in circumstances where no other aircraft could have succeeded.

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