The Fairey Swordfish made her maiden flight in April 1934 and was officially introduced into service in 1936, the same year the legendary Spitfire first flew. Four years prior to the Swordfish's maiden flight, the Air Ministry had issued a specification for a carrier aircraft in 1930: a biplane with an open cockpit, like RAF contemporaries such as the Bristol Bulldog.
The name might not be familiar today, but the Hawker Siddeley Trident claimed a number of "firsts" in the world of jet travel. What was so special about it?
On the photogenic spectrum of British military planes, at one end sits the de Havilland Hornet, with everything else sitting very much below the Hornet o.
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