The Fairey Battle
The Fairey Battle was supposed to be a military asset but it turned out to be more of a fairy princess, albeit not petite or pretty! The British Royal Air Force banked a lot of its fortunes on the Rolls-Royce Merlin piston-engine aircraft. It was in the 1930s. The Fairey was dismally sluggish and weighty and within a full week of being in commission around one hundred Fairey Battles were shot down by the enemy fire. The Royal Air Force decommissioned the big boy and sent it off to fairyland to rest forevermore!
The Fairey Battle
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