Fairey Swordfish: The Stringbag That Sank Battleships
The Fairey Swordfish was the aircraft that should not have worked: an open-cockpit fabric biplane, cruising below 110 mph, that entered service in 1936 and was obsolete on paper before the war began. It then crippled the Italian battle fleet at Taranto, jammed the Bismarck’s rudders, fought the U-boats from tiny merchant carriers, outlived the… Read article