In May 1941, Britain’s outdated Fairey Swordfish torpedo bombers accomplished the impossible, striking the German battleship ...

In one notable engagement, the Fairey Swordfish, a British biplane torpedo bomber, attacked the German Bismarck battleship, critically damaging its rudder and allowing other ships to finish it off.

Looking like a holdover from the First World War, this flimsy, antiquated, and slow biplane was all Great Britain had to throw against the mighty German Battleship in one of the greatest sea ...

There is just one working example of a Fairey Swordfish left in Europe, and it stopped off at Sherburn-in-Elmet as part of the Royal Navy Historic Flight on Friday.

The ungainly looking biplane ended up sinking over a million tons of Axis shipping by the end of the war. Among other things, the Swordfish notched the Fleet Air Army’s first U-boat kill of the ...

The Fairey Swordfish biplane, as every schoolboy knows, was an oddity of the Second World War, when the skies were dominated by fast and deadly monoplanes. Its obsolescence might have confined it to ...

Examples of biplanes used in WW2 include the Henschel Hs-123,the Gloster Gladiator biplane, and the Fairey Swordfish, which all served with distinction.

Ennis (the Preacher series) pays tribute to the Royal Navy pilots who flew Fairey Swordfish biplanes to stunning underdog victories in WWII in 'The Stringbags' (Dead Reckoning, Apr.).

Captain John Fairey, who died on July 7 aged 74, was flying his vintage Percival Provost when it crashed in a field as he returned from RAF Waddington, where it had been part of the ground display ...

In one notable engagement, the Fairey Swordfish, a British biplane torpedo bomber, attacked the German Bismarck battleship, critically damaging its rudder and allowing other ships to finish it off.