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Bringing back the Fairey Barracuda

Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2023 3:56 pm
by Moggy
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

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Re: Bringing back the Fairey Barracuda

Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2023 6:00 pm
by Jel
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.

Re: Bringing back the Fairey Barracuda

Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2023 6:48 pm
by rotton50
You're going to make me do one of these beasts, aren't you? :lol:

Re: Bringing back the Fairey Barracuda

Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2023 6:57 pm
by Moggy
Haven't really got a theatre to use it in at the moment, untill we get around to Norway ..... :)