Fairey Battle the missing RAF fighter/bomber

[He111]

Great pictures! Reminds me when I was a kid! nothing like a great image to sell something!

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[Plt Off JRB Meaker]

Yeah me too,I loved seeing these as a kid,we did'nt have computers back then in the seventies when I grew up,but we did have Airfix,and pics like these really made you want to go and buy that kit,superb.

[Voyager]

I think a lot of people would be very disappointed with flying the Fairey Battle. It is basically a bigger, slower Hurricane, with less bomb load, and two guns. It was not a fighter/bomber; it only had a single forward firing .303, and one in the tail, and its top speed was 250 mph. It looks cool, but you are a sitting duck.

If you really feel compelled to fly it, your best bet is to downloaded for MS Flight sim or X-Planes, and buzz around in it. It really is not a fun plane to fly more than once. The only value I could see for it would be as a nonflyable for the very early stages of the war.

The Sunderland would be a more fun plane to fly. It was highly successful as a sub-hunter, and had some wild, successful, dogfights with German heavy fighters, that could be made into showcase missions.

[Tavingon]

I just want to fly around in it, to try and recreate that famous bridge attack in france

[Tavingon]

[JG52Krupi]

You do realize it was a terrible terrible aircraft?

[ElAurens]

So?

Some of the most fun I've had in this series is doing "impossible" things with the old, odd, under performing, "crap planes" in the set.

Bagging an La5fn with a CR 42 when the La5 was truly uber.

Bagging an Me 262 with a Buffalo.

Bagging multiple F6Fs with a Ki 27.

Bagging 109 K4s with a P40.

Flying an IL2 like a fighter, and winning.

Not everyone subscribes to the "War Clouds" 1944 mind set you know.

[mazex]

Originally Posted by Tavingon

I just want to fly around in it, to try and recreate that famous bridge attack in france

And alter history by not getting shot to pieces over the bridge but on the way back instead?

Have to admit I would like to try that mission too - talk about heroes against all odds... The problem is that I don't think they even realized how brave they where as the RAF still believed the Battle would be able to survive an attack like that. Or I sincerely hope they did...