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 chases of ...

Unlike its namesake, our flying fish was slow and plodding, and it looked downright ungainly, hence its unofficial nickname of “Stringbag,” taken after a style of women’s purse that was popular in ...

If the Swordfish has lived on among British legends of the Second World War, the man whose name the aircraft bore has not. By Richard Overy The Fairey Swordfish biplane, as every schoolboy knows, was ...