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Fairey Aircraft Since 1915

Fairey Aircraft Since 1915

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{detailed description}For four decades Fairey was one of the great names in British aviation and, although the organization no longer builds aircraft of its own design, the name continues in other aeronautical spheres. During that long period from the 1914-18 war until well after the Second World War, Fairey's name was always associated with British naval aircraft — there was the long series of Fairey IIIs which served the Royal Naval Air Service and the Fleet Air Arm and which in its final form saw widescale service with the RAF before being developed into the Gordon and the Seal.
Many of the Fairey Ills operated as float seaplanes, but the company was also responsible for two large flying-boats, the Atalanta and Titania, although they never went into production.
The Fox can be claimed as the start of a new generation of British day bombers, and later versions of this and the single-seat Firefly found favour in Belgium where Fairey had a subsidiary company which is still active.
The two Fairey Long-range Monoplanes were pioneering ventures, one made the first non-stop flight between the United Kingdom and India and the other captured for Britain the world's long-distance record.
A Fairey oddity was the twin-engined Hendon —the RAF's first monoplane bomber.
One of the best-remembered and best-loved aeroplanes was the Swordfish — a multi-purpose biplane which outlived its intended successor, the Albacore. Fulmars, Firefly monoplanes and Barracudas all played a wartime role. The final Fairey naval aeroplane was the Gannet — a unique twinengined aeroplane having the layout and appearance of a single-engined type.
Fairey's two attempts at producing commercial aircraft were frustrated, the F.C.1 airliner being cancelled because of the war and the Rotodyne transport convertiplane being abandoned for financial reasons.
All these types, and the many others, are fully described and illustrated by photographs and three-view drawings, and there is a complete listing of aircraft by constructor's numbers.
{Author / Publisher / Date}by H. A. Taylor
1974 1st edn. 450pp
{condition}very good in price clipped d/j
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