Fairey Battle
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The Fairey Battle is a British single-engine light bomber that was designed and manufactured by the Fairey Aviation Company. It was developed during the mid-1930s for the Royal Air Force as a monoplan
Fairey Battle
Mechanics of No. 226 Squadron RAF overhaul the engines of their Battles in a hangar at Reims, France
Ground crew unloading 250 lb (110 kg) GP bombs in front of a Battle, 1939–1940
218 Squadron Fairey Battles over France, circa 1940
Rolls-Royce Merlin
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The Rolls-Royce Merlin is a British liquid-cooled V12 piston aero engine of 27-litre capacity. Developed as a private venture by Rolls-Royce and first run in 1933, the engine became one of the most su
Fairey Battle
…mid-1930s for the Royal Air Force (RAF) as a monoplane successor to the Hawker Hart and Hind biplanes. The Battle was powered by the same high-performance Rolls-Royce Merlin piston engine that powered various contemporary British fighters such as the Hawker Hurricane and Supermarine Spitfire. As the Battle, with its three-man…
The Rolls-Royce Merlin
Parallel valve Merlin cylinder head
Merlin 55 ejector exhaust detail, Spitfire LF.VB, EP120
Preserved Merlin 63 showing intercooler radiator, supercharger and carburettor