No complete examples of the plane remain, but one that crashed in 1944 is being painstakingly reconstructed.
The process is painstaking, fraught with difficulties and highly sensitive, but after a half-century wait, a labour of love to rebuild a “missing link” in the UK’s military aviation history is coming to fruition.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/202 ... ilds-plane
Bringing back the Fairey Barracuda
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Re: Bringing back the Fairey Barracuda
My brother bombed the Tirpitz in one in 1944. He was much relieved when HMS Indefatigable was sent to the far East and they switched to Avengers.
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You're going to make me do one of these beasts, aren't you?
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Re: Bringing back the Fairey Barracuda
Haven't really got a theatre to use it in at the moment, untill we get around to Norway .....
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