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The Fairey Firefly is a Second World War-era carrier-borne fighter aircraft and anti-submarine aircraft that was principally operated by the Fleet Air Arm (FAA). It was developed and built by the British aircraft manufacturer Fairey Aviation Company .
Fairey received 2,000,000 Westland shares of 5 shillings each and a cash payment of approximately £1.4m. The sale did not include Fairey Air Surveys or the works at Heston which was home to the weapon division, which had a contract for research into advanced anti-tank missile systems. Fairey's remaining net worth was approximately £9.5m.
Data from The Complete Book of Fighters General characteristics Crew: 1 Length: 24 ft 10 in (7.57 m) Wingspan: 31 ft 6 in (9.60 m) Height: 9 ft 1 in (2.77 m) Wing area: 236.8 sq ft (22.00 m 2) Gross weight: 2,724 lb (1,236 kg) Powerplant: 1 × Curtiss D-12 V-12 liquid-cooled piston engine, 430 hp (320 kW) Propellers: 2-bladed fixed-pitch propeller Performance Maximum speed: 185 mph (298 km/h ...
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The Fairey Firefly IIM was a British fighter of the 1930s. It was a single-seat, single-engine biplane of all-metal construction. Built by Fairey Aviation Company Limited , it served principally with the Belgian Air Force throughout the 1930s until the outbreak of World War II .
Firefly T.Mk 1 of Royal Netherlands Navy in 1948. Royal Netherlands Navy. Dutch Naval Aviation Service. VSQ-1; VSQ-2; VSQ-4; VSQ-5; VSQ-7; VSQ-860 - F.1/FR.1 India. Indian Navy. Indian Naval Air Arm operated 10 Fireflies from 1955 onwards for target tugging. [10] [11] Sweden. Firefly TT.Mk I of Svensk Flygtjänst AB in 1955
The Fairey Gannet is a carrier-borne aircraft that was designed and produced by the British aircraft manufacturer the Fairey Aviation Company. It was developed for the Royal Navy , being the first fixed-wing aircraft to combine both the search and strike portions of anti-submarine warfare (ASW) operations to be operated by the Fleet Air Arm (FAA).
Fairey had set off down this path with the Fox I which first and controversially used a U.S. Curtiss D-12 engine, though later Foxes were powered by the British Rolls-Royce Kestrel. The Fox was followed by the similarly powered single seat Firefly II and the Fox II. The Fleetwing was designed in this tradition, using the all-metal construction ...