Slow, fabric-covered, and outdated by World War II standards, the Fairey Swordfish torpedo bomber nevertheless carved a ...

The Fairey Swordfish looked outdated even before World War II began - a fabric-covered biplane in an age of sleek monoplanes. Yet in the hands of the Fleet Air Arm, it became a deadly naval weapon, ...

How Richard Fairey’s Swordfish plane changed history If the Swordfish has lived on among British legends of the Second World War, the man whose name the aircraft bore has not.

A Fairey Swordfish Mk 1 torpedo bomber, or Stringbag as it was affectionately known by crews, is to be restored to its former glory by engineers at BAE Systems in the centenary year of naval aviation.

Using underwater mapping, Cal Poly students helped find a World War II plane that went down 74 years ago in the ocean near Malta. It was a Fairey Swordfish.

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 ...

I joined the family firm Blackburn Aircraft which had a shadow factory at Sherburn-in-Elmet making Fairey Swordfish for a limited time.

A pilot has clocked-up 100 hours of flying at the controls of the only surviving Fairey Swordfish in the world which first flew in 1941.

I joined the family firm Blackburn Aircraft which had a shadow factory at Sherburn-in-Elmet making Fairey Swordfish for a limited time.