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Aviation History
1941
1941 - 0787.PDF
c \PRIL 3RD, I94I. FLEET AIR ARM FIGHTER Fit. Lt C. Staniland. flies the Royal Navy's Eight-gun Fairey Fulmar for Pictures 71 PART from its beauty of outline, the Merlin-engined Fulmar has excellent manoeuvrability and heavy punishing power. Batteries of four machine guns are carried in each wing, outside the disc of the airscrew and, therefore, able to develop their full rate of fire. Beneath the fuselage can be seen the spools for catapult take-off. The tail of the photographic machine which appears in one of the pictures belongs to a Fairey Swordfish. The two types in collaboration have done excellent work in the Mediterranean. It is likely that the work of the Swordfish in Taranto Harbour more than paid for the whole Swordfish contract.
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