Wingleader Photo Archive 40: Fairey Battle in RAF and Overseas Service

Name: Wingleader Photo Archive 40: Fairey Battle in RAF and Overseas Service
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eBay Store Design by Visualsoft\n\nWingleader Photo Archive 40: Fairey Battle in RAF and Overseas Service\n\n--\nFrom \u00A318.95\n\n--RRP \u00A319.95\n--|\n--You Save \u00A31.00\n\nAsk a Question\n\nDescription\n\nThe Fairey Battle was sleek, solid and quite capable for its day, and was a step up in technology from the biplanes that it replaced. However, the Battle had always been doomed to failure due to an insane specification that effectively required an aircraft a third heavier than a Spitfire, with twice as big a wingspan, to carry 1000lbs of bombs and three crew members\u2026 but only with the same single Merlin engine as the Spitfire! Even the design team at Fairey strongly recommended a twin engined version to the Air Ministry, but to no avail.\n\nDigging deep into the Fairey Battle\u2019s history for this book has been a real pleasure for all the Wingleader team. We learned a lot and can now confidently spot an early K series from a later one, as hopefully you will too aftet