* Aircraft from the British aircraft carrier strike Glomfjord, Norway, sinking two merchant ships for the loss of two Fairey Albacores.

827 Naval Air Squadron was also stationed at Yeovilton operating Fairey Albacores and later Barracudas starting in May 1943, becoming the first squadron to receive Barracudas in any substantial number.

When the Japanese launched their invasion of Malaya and Singapore, Seletar housed the RAF ’ s 205 Sqn with PBY Catalina flying boats and 36 and 100 Sqns with obsolete Vickers Vildebeest torpedo bombers ( including five Fairey Albacores acquired by 36 Sqn to supplement its Vildebeests ), along with 151 Maintenance Unit.

* May 26 – WWII: In the North Atlantic, Fairey Swordfish aircraft from the carrier HMS Ark Royal cripple the steering of Bismarck in an aerial torpedo attack.

** Royal Navy Fairey Swordfish based on Malta bomb Tripoli.

The Plover had a good performance but only six were built for service in 1923 ; the Royal Navy preferring the Fairey Flycatcher despite its lower speed.

Woolverstone is home to the Royal Harwich Yacht Club that was for many years host to the Swordfish 15-foot racing dinghy built by Fairey Marine, in addition to its 12-foot Firefly, a derivative of the National 12-foot dinghy, both designed by the great sailor Uffa Fox.

On 11 November 1940, the Royal Navy crippled or destroyed three Italian battleships by using carrier borne aircraft, the obsolescent Fairey Swordfish, in the Battle of Taranto.

* May 20 – Fairey Battle with No. 63 Squadron, Royal Air Force

Post-war research led the Royal Air Force to introduce Fairey Fireflash into service in 1955 but their results were unsuccessful.

To try to do this, Ark Royal launched a strike with her Fairey Swordfish torpedo bombers.

In March 1949, the company undertook repair and overhaul work for the Royal Canadian Navy on the Supermarine Seafire and the Fairey Firefly and later the Hawker Sea Fury and also undertook modification work on the Grumman Avenger.

The Fairey factory at Heaton Chapel, Stockport can trace its roots back to when Crossley Bros. Ltd having had by the end of 1916 supplied large numbers of tenders and aero engines to the Royal Flying Corps acquired premises at High Lane, Heaton Chapel to expand production.

The Queen was a modified Fairey IIIF floatplane, ( a catapult launched aircraft which was used for reconnaissance by the Royal Navy ).

In April, 1947 Fairey released details of its first guided missile It was an anti-aircraft weapon designed for use in the Pacific war but not completed in time for use by the British Army ( who originally ordered it ) or for the Royal Navy.

Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm TBF Avenger | Avengers, Supermarine Seafire | Seafires and Fairey Firefly | Fireflies on the deck of HMS Implacable ( R86 ) | HMS Implacable warm up their engines before taking off.

* August 2 – As one of the components of Operation Hurry, the first of many operations in which Allied aircraft carriers fly off Royal Air Force fighters for service at Malta, twelve Fairey Swordfish from the British aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal make the first night raid on Italian soil in the early morning hours, attacking Cagliari in southern Sardinia.

* November 11 – 12 ( overnight ) – Fairey Swordfish from make a highly successful raid against ships of the Italian Royal Navy ( Regia Marina ) at Taranto, Italy.

* January 9 – 10 Italian bombers attack a Gibraltar-to-Malta convoy escorted by the British aircraft carriers and, scoring no hits and losing two of their number to Fairey Fulmar fighters from Ark Royal.

* Royal Navy Fairey Swordfish aircraft attack Vichy French shipping and shore targets in Syria.

The high-level bombers are ineffective and Fairey Fulmars from Ark Royal shoot down two of them, but the six torpedo bombers fatally damage the destroyer and cripple the light cruiser.

On February 12, six Fleet Air Arm Fairey Swordfish – all of which are shot down ; their commander, Lieutenant Commander Eugene Esmonde receives a posthumous Victoria Cross for the attack – and some Royal Air Force Coastal Command Beauforts attempt torpedo attacks, but score no hits.

* June 28 – Royal Air Force Squadron Leader Basil Arkel sets a new helicopter speed record of 124 mph ( 200 km / h ) in a Fairey Gyrodyne.

* May 19 – The first aerial circumnavigation of Australia is carried out, by a Royal Australian Air Force crew in a Fairey IIID.

* October 3 or 30 – The Royal Navy cruiser Vindictive launches a Fairey IIID floatplane by catapult.

* March 1-Four Royal Air Force Fairey IIIDs begin a long-distance flight, taking them from Cairo to Cape Town and then on to Lee-on-Solent, England, where they will arrive on June 2.

* The British aircraft carrier brings Fleet Air Arm of the Royal Air Force Fairey IIID aircraft to support the Shanghai Defence Force against rebel Chinese forces.

* June 8 – Royal Air Force Fairey IIIC seaplanes from the Royal Navy aircraft carrier / seaplane carrier bomb four Bolshevik naval vessels in North Russia, with little effect.

Fairey Gannet AEW MK. 3: Fairey Gannet Serial Number: XL482 Registration: N1350X Markings: Royal Navy, Royal Naval Air Station Lossiemouth, 1978.

The problem was solved in the early 1960s when the Royal Canadian Navy ’ s Experimental Squadron 10 ( VX 10 ), based at Shearwater, in collaboration with Dartmouth ’ s Fairey Aviation, developed the world ’ s first Helicopter Hauldown and Rapid Securing Device ( HHRSD ) or " beartrap ".

It was the standard Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm " Telegraphist Air Gunner " machine gun, on British built carrier ( Torpedo Strike Reconnaissance ) aircraft-the Fairey Swordfish, the Fairey Albacore and the Fairey Barracuda.

Westland did progress as a private venture a large space-frame cargo helicopter design using a Sikorksy rotor head-the Westland Westminster-but this was dropped later in favour of the government funded Fairey Rotodyne.

Initially consisting of 10 squadrons of Fairey Battle bombers, its mission is to deploy to France in the event of war with Germany and strike targets in Germany from French bases.

A batch of the Fairey Hamble Baby were built and then another enquiry came in for a shipboard reconnaissance plane.

Conceived as a replacement for the Westland Wapiti and Fairey Gordon it initially called for day and night bombing capabilities, reconnaissance, torpedo and dive-bombing roles.

Nimrod aside, many naval fighters were named for birds-such as the Fairey Flycatcher, Fairey Fulmar, Blackburn Skua and Grumman Martlet ( the martlet being a heraldic bird ).

In 1929, Fairey Aviation bought of land just southeast of Heathrow hamlet, to establish an airfield for flight testing ; later purchases gradually enlarged this airfield to about.

* 1933: A local trade directory lists for Heathrow these: Mrs. Waddell ( Cain's Farm house ); < u > farmers or market gardeners </ u >: Harry Curtis ( Heathrow Farm ), George Dance ( a small house on Heathrow Road nearly opposite the Plough and Harrow pub ), William Howell ( Bathurst ), Frederick Philp ( Heathrow Hall ), Sidney Whittington ( Perry Oaks ), David and John Wild ( Croft House ); < u > other </ u >: Heathrow Sand & Gravel Co ( Colnbrook ) Ltd., Edgar Charles Basham ( The gazette misprinted his surname as Sasham ) ( publican at the Plough and Harrow pub ), Fairey Aviation.

Charles Richard Fairey was seconded there for a short time, before setting up his own company, Fairey Aviation, which relocated across the railway.

* Fairey Delta 2 ( 1954 )-1st aircraft to break 1, 000 mph, rebuilt as BAC 211 for high speed delta research for Concorde

This naturally led to the use of light bombers as the preferred platform for airborne radars, and in May 1939 the first experimental fit took place, on a Fairey Battle.

To compensate for this, many dive bombers are designed to be trimmed out, either through the use of special dive flaps ( such as Fairey Youngman flaps ) or through changes in tailplane trim that must be readjusted when the dive is completed.

They only produced hybrid aircraft: the Blackburn Skua, a dive bomber / fighter that was used for a short time and in small numbers, and the Fairey Barracuda, a dive bomber / torpedo bomber.

Romanian aircraft used to pass through Avions Fairey in Belgium to the UK for certification.

When the invasion did come on 10 May 1940, the Germans were not only in possession of more aircraft and weapons than the western Allies ( among them were approximately 400 aircraft from the RAF, including Hawker Hurricane fighters and outclassed Fairey Battle bombers ), but many of them were veterans of the war in Spain and so had brought their comrades up to speed as to how to conduct the air element of the war by " preparing the ground " for the Panzer divisions of the German Army.

No. 1 Group, with its squadrons of Fairey Battles, left for France to form the Advanced Air Striking Force.

The station was used mainly for training, and the first squadrons were equipped with Vickers Wellesley aircraft, but soon converted to Fairey Battles.

Notable for the design of a number of important military aircraft, including the Fairey III family, the Swordfish, Firefly, and Gannet, it had a strong presence in the supply of naval aircraft, and also built bombers for the RAF.

The first aircraft designed and built by the Fairey Aviation specifically for use on an aircraft carrier was the Fairey Campania a patrol seaplane that first flew in February 1917.

C. R. Fairey and the Fairey Aviation Co., Ltd., was awarded £ 4, 000 for work on the Hamble Baby seaplane.