Fairey Swordfish
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The Fairey Swordfish is a retired biplane torpedo bomber, designed by the Fairey Aviation Company. Originating in the early 1930s, the Swordfish, nicknamed "Stringbag", was principally operated by the
Swordfish LS 326 in flight in 2013
Workers carrying out salvage and repair work on a wing of a Swordfish
A Swordfish I during a training flight from RNAS Crail, circa 1939–1945
A formation of three Swordfish IIIs of No. 119 Squadron RAF over the North Sea, 1939–1945
Fairey Albacore
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The Fairey Albacore is a single-engine biplane torpedo bomber designed and produced by the British aircraft manufacturer Fairey Aviation. It was primarily operated by the Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm duri
Fairey Swordfish
…the type entered service with the Fleet Air Arm (FAA) in July 1936. By early 1940, Fairey was busy with the Swordfish and other types such as the new Fairey Albacore torpedo bomber. The Admiralty approached Blackburn Aircraft with a proposal that manufacture of the Swordfish be transferred to them; Blackburn then…
L7075, the second prototype of the Fairey Albacore in flight. The markings place it around 1940.
Albacore in flight circa 1940
A Fairey Albacore Mk I of 820 Naval Air Squadron operating from HMS Formidable during the North African landings, November 1942
Albacore (N4389) at the Fleet Air Arm Museum