A lot of the deck scenes were Fairey Firefly FR1s - armed with 4x20mm cannon in place of the Fulmar's 8x.303sMGs The Firefly replaced the Fulmar from 1943 onwards
@jeannotschumacher1024 simple necessity. A fleet or aircraft can't be replaced overnight nor can the pilots be retrained. Its similar to why the swordfish was kept in service long after it perhaps should have been.
I had the dubious honour of helping to prepare the last remaining fulmar for flight in the early sixties at HMS Fulmar (RNAS Lossiemouth), until some clown (not me) put modern hydraulic fluid (OM15) into it. It later did fly after a total replumbing of its hydraulic system and I believe it now resides at HMS Heron (RNAS Yeovilton).😊
That's actually pretty awesome, it may not have appeared glamorous at the time but you not only got to see the end of its long career, you also had a hand in its final send off.
The last Fulmar operated by the FAA was on HMS Campania by 813 squadron in 1945 where they had been using them as night fighters. Some versions of the MkII and the NF MkII had 4 x.50 cal Brownings instead of the .303's.
Thanks for making this segment. As mentioned, carrier operations in the Med were often eclipsed by WW2 US carrier operations in the Pacific and the hunt for the Bismarck. So the segment is a welcomed contribution.
@@salamander163that was cover we allready knew where it was as they told us with radio messages. They had to make sure the Germans saw them so they didn't realise we could read their transmissions
Thank you.....lets not forget that during the 1st and the 2nd U boat "Happy Time" allied crews of both ships and aircrafts were frustrated and tried hard to show some positive results by either overclaiming or false reports..to be honest (I passed many times a couple of miles away) Alboran was a flat islet with a hut where fishermen used to store nets and later grew into a lighthouse... somehow resempled a submarine especially during twilight.....don't know it's present state though
Eric Brown: A total legend. Its unlikely anyone will ever fly more types and hold more varied and crucial military aviation roles as the great man. I'm proud to share his surname
Any old iron any old iron Any any any old iron Talk about a treat Chasing ‘round the fleet Any old eyetie or hun you meet Ways 6 tonnes No rear gun Sod all to rely on You know what you can do With your Fulmar II Old iron old iron. (From a nailed on Fulmar fan)
10:05 - I think that's a Firefly. Nore the four cannon. Also 10:15, 10:20, 10:26, 12:18, 13:15, 14:11, 14:14. The Firefly was the follow-on design, it had a RR Griffon engine, and the air intake under the nose was further forward, flush with the front of the cowl.
you are correct most of the footage of the Fairy Firefly their are quite a few surviviors mainly in the UK, Canada and Australia and i think there are single examples in India and Thialand too
There is about as much footage of Firefliies in this video as there is of Fulmars. To be fair though: there exists much more footage of Fireflies than of Fulmars to begin with but still....
welcome to the useless editing of all the "dark" videos - Dark Skies, Dark Seas etc they all got a girl from the mailroom to throw some pix together - usually you get cold war for WW2 or the reverse. They don't care.
Great narrative. Great research. Thanks for this. I've never even heard of the Fairy Fulmar. Don't know why, I've always loved aircraft. Maybe because Airfix never made a model of it! Thanks again.
Not a Aircraft man but I believe that one of the Naval Aircraft involved in the final demise of the Bismarck was the Swordfish which because of its slow airspeed aided its attack of the pre mentioned battleship. Aussie Jeff Moore
it's *wild* this is the first time i've really heard of this thing... i feel like between war thunder and my general obsession with wwii fighting vehicles i should've heard something before now, considering its service
One of the great what ifs? A Naval fighter version of the Boulton Paul Defiant minus its turret and equiped with wing cannons or machine guns. Boulton Paul experimented with a turretless version called the P94 with forwarded armament. It could have been reworked into a two-seater naval version as per RN specification. It's strength would have made it ideal for carrier operations
Sound research of Dark Skies is often spoilt by the inaccuracy of the video behind the dialogue. Many of the aircraft depicted in this episode are of the Fulmar's successor, the Firefly, which are easily identified by the 4 20mm canon and the raised pilots cockpit canopy.
The Fulmar had a marginal role as a spotter aircraft during the chase with the Bismark. It didn't drop a bomb or torpedo. The damage was done by the Swordfish bi-planes that damaged the steering of Bismark
Interesting that you mention it's involvment with the Bismark however, I kind of liked the part the Fairey Swordfish, commonly called The Stringbag, played in disabling the Bismark's rudder system that pretty much made it a sitting duck. Read the book, "To War In a Stringbag". Pretty freaking intersting. So darned slow that the Bismark's automated tracking systems could not track slow enough to keep it in the gun's sights.
Almost all of this footage is of Fairey Fireflys, not Fulmars. For some odd reason I always liked the Firefly and was very excited because even the thumbnail is of a Firefly.
It is amazing to think of the advancement in engines & aircraft from the Hawker & Fokker biplanes of 1926 to 10 years later and the Spitfire & Me 109 of 1936.
11:55 Various sources seem to suggest that only 3 Fulmars were ever lost to single seat fighters, so the assumption here that Fulmars lost against the Japanese were shot down by Zeroes may be incorrect, and they were probably shot down by Kates and Vals instead or were destroyed on the ground.
Captain Eric "Winkle" Brown flew more types of aircraft as a test pilot than any other pilot in the world. His total was 482 including his basic training aircraft type. Just a bit of Rubbish History I know.
@@antonysteel8061 Check out the Museum of Flight at East Fortune, if you get the chance. Possibly their most interesting exhibit (for me at any rate) is the actual captured Me163 he flew in. Brown was the only Allied pilot to fly the Me163 under rocket power. It took a brave man to do that!
We really should have stuck with the Fairey Albacore in my opinion, it had two designs which were a monoplane and a biplane version, we went with the wrong version, had we gone with the monoplane and given it a more powerful powerplant I am absolutely certain that it would have been up to challenging the A6M Zero although the Zero having no armour it would most likely still be faster than the similarly shaped Albacore monoplane. And I say similarly shaped as since we don't really have access to the old designs we can only assume how it might have looked, and so I have taken the Albacore design and made modifications to it removing the upper and lower twin wings of the biplane version along with the static undercarriage and swapped them for the only wings and undercarriage that really makes sense which Fairey themselves would have had access to and that is the wings and undercarriage of the Fulmar. In doing so I noticed that the resemblance to the Mitsubishi A6M Zero is uncanny, especially if I colour it in using Japanese colours and markings, but the engine looks tiny on it which is why I believe that a bigger more powerful engine would have been a better option than the one the Albacore was given, I took liberties a little and upscaled the existing engine and made it look larger and more to scale with the rest of the plane and that is really when the Zero similarity pops out and sitting here now looking at the picture of it on my phone I am totally convinced that what I am looking at would have been a far more superior aeroplane than any British built model used by the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm during the first half of the war.
Too much footage of Fulmar's successor, the Fairey Firefly, can be misleading. Although based on a similar specification (FR) and described as a World War II aircraft, the Firefly was a different aircraft, mainly from the early Cold War period (in service from 1943 (F/FR Mk I) to 1958).
The entire “Dark” series has scrapped the barrel-bottom clean & now spins trivia or outrightly makes stuff up. [sigh] another channel unsubscribed. BUT the were good when they had substance.
A bit clickbaity, but the Fulmars did shadow the Bismarck while waiting for the Fairey Swordfish, (a totally outdated design) to drop Torpedoes, which slowed it up and allowed the British Battleships to catch up and sink it in the Bay of Biscay. So, you could say they helped. A bit.
I keep trying and trying to watch @Dark Skies but turn off video most of the time because of wrong images and wrong "facts" @3:14 he says catapult stressing - The Royal Navy never had an aircraft carrier with catapults
@@robbierobinson8819 carrier operations was the context of @DarkSkies video not destroyer or battleship operations which did not include arrestor recoveries
@@Oligodendrocyte139 carrier operations was the context of @DarkSkies video not destroyer or battleship operations which did not include arrestor recoveries
@@bengazzi3186 Courageous was converted from a battlecruiser to a carrier in between WW1 and 2. Check out the Wikipedia entry for HMS Courageous (50). It had catapults and arrestors etc. etc. At the start of the war it had two squadrons of Swordfish torpedo bombers.
"The Flying Battleship Killer" the video clip leaves out which battleships she sank. I was previously familiar with this plane end It definitely made big contributions to the war but I was unaware that it killed battleships.
Can you tell me where the video at 11.17 is taken from please? I ask because the naval officer shown with the binoculars and tobacco pipe is the spitting image of my grandfather who was a British naval officer during WW2.
Britain never had a shortage of aircraft carriers, Britain IS an aircraft carrier, it would have been more so had they kept the channel islands. Out past the outer Hebrides their aircraft reached far into the north Atlantic
RN FAA with it's wings clipped? You could argue the same today. Fair enough they have just stood up their first F35B squadron but I worry it is too little too late sometimes. Only one thing. Most of the time you are saying Fulmar and showing film of the later Firefly.
I take exception to the repeated negative comments on the Fairy Battle sir. Why just 30 Fairy battles could have easily won the battle of Omdurman by themselves, perhaps with as little as 15% losses.
A fairly good video, I've never heard of the Fulmar before. However, it apparently never once killed a battleship, and they never said what armament it was fitted with??
It's armament was 4x0.303 machine guns in each wing, in a similar fashion to the Hurricane but with a larger ammunition load. Some were fitted with 2x0.5 machine guns in each wing.
I do not understand why it had to be so large. Even if they wanted a second crewman, I do not see why it had to be so big. I would not have liked to have been the navigator in one of those if attacked by a single seat fighter. There would be nothing you could do.
I'm not aware of Fulmars killing any battleship. So odd choice of title. The Fulmar wasn't a jet (8:08). Fairey didn't develop a new engine from scratch. Rolls Royce retuned a Merlin variant. Many of your clips actually show Fairey Fireflies; the pairs of 20mm cannons and more bubble canopy are the giveaways. Please stop saying 'the HMS', ie 'the Her Majesty's Ship'. It doesn't make sense!
"Those who touched the skies and tasted the salt of the seas." Wow! What an eloquent turn of phrase. 🗣️👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
A lot of the deck scenes were Fairey Firefly FR1s - armed with 4x20mm cannon in place of the Fulmar's 8x.303sMGs The Firefly replaced the Fulmar from 1943 onwards
How is it posdible that britain kept in service such a crap plane as the fulmar
@jeannotschumacher1024 simple necessity. A fleet or aircraft can't be replaced overnight nor can the pilots be retrained. Its similar to why the swordfish was kept in service long after it perhaps should have been.
thumbnail pic is also a Firefly I believe
@jeannotschumacher1024 we have to use the kit we've got, until we can upgrade . . ?
@@jeannotschumacher1024 The Fulmar & Swordfish played a major role in the sinking of the Bismark !
I had the dubious honour of helping to prepare the last remaining fulmar for flight in the early sixties at HMS Fulmar (RNAS Lossiemouth), until some clown (not me) put modern hydraulic fluid (OM15) into it. It later did fly after a total replumbing of its hydraulic system and I believe it now resides at HMS Heron (RNAS Yeovilton).😊
That's actually pretty awesome, it may not have appeared glamorous at the time but you not only got to see the end of its long career, you also had a hand in its final send off.
Good man.👊💛👍
😊@@Skinflaps_Meatslapper
The last Fulmar operated by the FAA was on HMS Campania by 813 squadron in 1945 where they had been using them as night fighters. Some versions of the MkII and the NF MkII had 4 x.50 cal Brownings instead of the .303's.
This is true. They dropped the fifties because of poor cold weather performance.
Thanks for making this segment. As mentioned, carrier operations in the Med were often eclipsed by WW2 US carrier operations in the Pacific and the hunt for the Bismarck. So the segment is a welcomed contribution.
a catalina plane locate the Bismarck
British carriers could take bomb hits. US carriers were wrecked or sunk.
@@salamander163that was cover we allready knew where it was as they told us with radio messages. They had to make sure the Germans saw them so they didn't realise we could read their transmissions
Thank you.....lets not forget that during the 1st and the 2nd U boat "Happy Time" allied crews of both ships and aircrafts were frustrated and tried hard to show some positive results by either overclaiming or false reports..to be honest (I passed many times a couple of miles away) Alboran was a flat islet with a hut where fishermen used to store nets and later grew into a lighthouse... somehow resempled a submarine especially during twilight.....don't know it's present state though
this video gives deserved credit to a basically unknown plane and it's pilots,well done.
It's nice to see a video that introduces new knowledge. An aircraft type I had heard of but knew nothing about.
Eric Brown: A total legend. Its unlikely anyone will ever fly more types and hold more varied and crucial military aviation roles as the great man. I'm proud to share his surname
Needs a block buster film of his life story if he was American that would have been made already
My Mother's side are Browns. A proud sept of the McClouds.
Everyone: This thing cannot be flown.
Eric Brown: Hold my tea.
A wide and varied group us Browns haha. Eric was a proper legend and I share your sentiment 100%.
Maybe Hanna Reitsch would be a close second
I had only heard a few things about the Fulmar. I had no idea it was as involved as you have pointed out. Thank YOu for filling in the blank spots.
Any old iron any old iron
Any any any old iron
Talk about a treat
Chasing ‘round the fleet
Any old eyetie or hun you meet
Ways 6 tonnes
No rear gun
Sod all to rely on
You know what you can do
With your Fulmar II
Old iron old iron.
(From a nailed on Fulmar fan)
10:05 - I think that's a Firefly. Nore the four cannon. Also 10:15, 10:20, 10:26, 12:18, 13:15, 14:11, 14:14. The Firefly was the follow-on design, it had a RR Griffon engine, and the air intake under the nose was further forward, flush with the front of the cowl.
you are correct most of the footage of the Fairy Firefly their are quite a few surviviors mainly in the UK, Canada and Australia and i think there are single examples in India and Thialand too
There is about as much footage of Firefliies in this video as there is of Fulmars. To be fair though: there exists much more footage of Fireflies than of Fulmars to begin with but still....
Yep, most of the footage is of Fireflies. The Firefly was used over the Pacific in 1945. You'd be a deadman if you flew a Fulmar against the IJN.
Almost all of the footage here of "Fulmars" is of Fireflys
welcome to the useless editing of all the "dark" videos - Dark Skies, Dark Seas etc they all got a girl from the mailroom to throw some pix together - usually you get cold war for WW2 or the reverse. They don't care.
Best video in the Dark series I've seen! Script is 💯% Well edited and mixed. Great work team Dark!!!
Great narrative. Great research. Thanks for this. I've never even heard of the Fairy Fulmar. Don't know why, I've always loved aircraft. Maybe because Airfix never made a model of it!
Thanks again.
Not a Aircraft man but I believe that one of the Naval Aircraft involved in the final demise of the Bismarck was the Swordfish which because of its slow airspeed aided its attack of the pre mentioned battleship.
Aussie Jeff Moore
it's *wild* this is the first time i've really heard of this thing... i feel like between war thunder and my general obsession with wwii fighting vehicles i should've heard something before now, considering its service
What aircraft will you show when you cover the Fairey Firefly.
One of the great what ifs? A Naval fighter version of the Boulton Paul Defiant minus its turret and equiped with wing cannons or machine guns. Boulton Paul experimented with a turretless version called the P94 with forwarded armament. It could have been reworked into a two-seater naval version as per RN specification. It's strength would have made it ideal for carrier operations
8:05
"... powered by a single Rolls Royce Merlin, a beast in itself..."
*shows footage or a jet engine tachometer and afterburner*
Sound research of Dark Skies is often spoilt by the inaccuracy of the video behind the dialogue. Many of the aircraft depicted in this episode are of the Fulmar's successor, the Firefly, which are easily identified by the 4 20mm canon and the raised pilots cockpit canopy.
Plenty of Fireflies here but thanks for highlighting the Fulmar. Next up? The Firefly please.
The Fulmar had a marginal role as a spotter aircraft during the chase with the Bismark. It didn't drop a bomb or torpedo. The damage was done by the Swordfish bi-planes that damaged the steering of Bismark
Interesting that you mention it's involvment with the Bismark however, I kind of liked the part the Fairey Swordfish, commonly called The Stringbag, played in disabling the Bismark's rudder system that pretty much made it a sitting duck. Read the book, "To War In a Stringbag". Pretty freaking intersting. So darned slow that the Bismark's automated tracking systems could not track slow enough to keep it in the gun's sights.
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Almost all of this footage is of Fairey Fireflys, not Fulmars. For some odd reason I always liked the Firefly and was very excited because even the thumbnail is of a Firefly.
I saw a Fulmar a the static display for the Reno Air Races last year impressive looking plane for sure.
That was actually a later fairey firefly- the fulmar’s successor. Bad video editing showed mostly firefly footage.
A most interesting article. Unfortunately, half of the film shown was not of the Fulmar, but of its successor the Firefly.
The best channel period for these type of historical presentations of beautiful war technology from all sides....
Good story - thanks for sharing it with us.
It is amazing to think of the advancement in engines & aircraft from the Hawker & Fokker biplanes of 1926 to 10 years later and the Spitfire & Me 109 of 1936.
11:55 Various sources seem to suggest that only 3 Fulmars were ever lost to single seat fighters, so the assumption here that Fulmars lost against the Japanese were shot down by Zeroes may be incorrect, and they were probably shot down by Kates and Vals instead or were destroyed on the ground.
Captain Eric "Winkle" Brown flew more types of aircraft as a test pilot than any other pilot in the world. His total was 482 including his basic training aircraft type. Just a bit of Rubbish History I know.
Both you and I are fountains of useless nerd-knowledge.
‘winkle’ was a legend, RIP sir
And it's accepted that no one will ever surpass those 482 aircraft he flew@@antonysteel8061
@@antonysteel8061 Check out the Museum of Flight at East Fortune, if you get the chance. Possibly their most interesting exhibit (for me at any rate) is the actual captured Me163 he flew in. Brown was the only Allied pilot to fly the Me163 under rocket power. It took a brave man to do that!
We really should have stuck with the Fairey Albacore in my opinion, it had two designs which were a monoplane and a biplane version, we went with the wrong version, had we gone with the monoplane and given it a more powerful powerplant I am absolutely certain that it would have been up to challenging the A6M Zero although the Zero having no armour it would most likely still be faster than the similarly shaped Albacore monoplane.
And I say similarly shaped as since we don't really have access to the old designs we can only assume how it might have looked, and so I have taken the Albacore design and made modifications to it removing the upper and lower twin wings of the biplane version along with the static undercarriage and swapped them for the only wings and undercarriage that really makes sense which Fairey themselves would have had access to and that is the wings and undercarriage of the Fulmar.
In doing so I noticed that the resemblance to the Mitsubishi A6M Zero is uncanny, especially if I colour it in using Japanese colours and markings, but the engine looks tiny on it which is why I believe that a bigger more powerful engine would have been a better option than the one the Albacore was given, I took liberties a little and upscaled the existing engine and made it look larger and more to scale with the rest of the plane and that is really when the Zero similarity pops out and sitting here now looking at the picture of it on my phone I am totally convinced that what I am looking at would have been a far more superior aeroplane than any British built model used by the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm during the first half of the war.
and when it's down to half the fuel capacity, it's known as a half fulmar
Exactly how many battleships did the Fulmar sink/kill?
Apparently none?
None
Too much footage of Fulmar's successor, the Fairey Firefly, can be misleading. Although based on a similar specification (FR) and described as a World War II aircraft, the Firefly was a different aircraft, mainly from the early Cold War period (in service from 1943 (F/FR Mk I) to 1958).
Some of your film show the Fairy Firefly, these are the ones with 4 20mm cannon in the wing, 2 in each wing
Which battleships did this plane kill?
Clickbait title...
I was thinking the same thing
Dark Skies don't know the difference between DD, patrol craft or a BB.
The entire “Dark” series has scrapped the barrel-bottom clean & now spins trivia or outrightly makes stuff up. [sigh] another channel unsubscribed. BUT the were good when they had substance.
A bit clickbaity, but the Fulmars did shadow the Bismarck while waiting for the Fairey Swordfish, (a totally outdated design) to drop Torpedoes, which slowed it up and allowed the British Battleships to catch up and sink it in the Bay of Biscay. So, you could say they helped. A bit.
@@brettt8246
Ridiculous.
Excellent video, one of your best in my view!
I fancy Myself as a decent aviation buff and I had never heard of this aircraft nor it's history or role. Thanks.
Firefly.
These are FIREFLIES!
Stop grinding my gears.
How many flying battleships did it kill?
Thanks. Wasn't aware of the Fulmar's history.
Thank you for this.
the armoured deck thing was due to them operating in range of german land based bombers. much trickier to hide in the Med rather than the Pacific
Turned out to be perfect for the Pacific, where kamikazes could sink a wooden-decked US fleet carrier, but bounced off steel-decked RN carriers.
Thankyou. Interesting video.
Most excellent upload. The WW2 generation had nerves of STEEL.
I could not find the names of the battleships the Fairey Fulmar sank in WW2, not even a cruiser or a single destroyer!
I keep trying and trying to watch @Dark Skies but turn off video most of the time
because of wrong images and wrong "facts"
@3:14 he says catapult stressing - The Royal Navy never had an aircraft carrier with catapults
HMS Courageous I think did.
It did make it possible;e for Fulmars to be launched from merchant ships to try to drive off or shoot down reconnaissance aircraft.
@@robbierobinson8819 carrier operations was the context of @DarkSkies video not destroyer or battleship operations which did not include arrestor recoveries
@@Oligodendrocyte139 carrier operations was the context of @DarkSkies video not destroyer or battleship operations which did not include arrestor recoveries
@@bengazzi3186 Courageous was converted from a battlecruiser to a carrier in between WW1 and 2. Check out the Wikipedia entry for HMS Courageous (50). It had catapults and arrestors etc. etc. At the start of the war it had two squadrons of Swordfish torpedo bombers.
Why do you keep showing images of the later Firefly?
Just a guess, adriansmith3139, but maybe there isn't any footage of the Fulmar?
So, what made it a battleship killer? Did I miss that part?
it's dark skies, almost always crap.
AGAIN ? The thumbnail is a Firefly, not a Fulmar, and both were fighters.
Neither could do much against a battleship.
"The Flying Battleship Killer" the video clip leaves out which battleships she sank. I was previously familiar with this plane end It definitely made big contributions to the war but I was unaware that it killed battleships.
Are the aircraft with the Maple Leaf insignia such as at 7:05 actually Fairey Fireflies rather than Fulmars?
So if this a video about the Fairey Fulmar, why was most of the footage of the Fairey Firefly?
Can you tell me where the video at 11.17 is taken from please? I ask because the naval officer shown with the binoculars and tobacco pipe is the spitting image of my grandfather who was a British naval officer during WW2.
I like your channel but please don't use clickbait titles
Yes, that is truly irritating
Most of what Im seeing looks like Fireflys. Fulmar did not have gun barrels protruding in front of the wings.
Talks about the prototype being powered by a RR Merlin. Shows clip of turbojet engine exhaust...
The Corsair was a late war plane? Didn't roll out in 42?
1942 that is about half time for WW2 so late war is a reasonable label.
@@meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee2 THE US entered the war on December 7th, 1941... late war?
@@F1lmtwit The war in Western Europe started in 1939, the war in China even earlier, so 1942 is about half way through the war.
Most of these Fulmars are Fireflys.
There is a constant fight even today between the RN, and the RAF about just who should have what aircraft.
Something about the narration audio was off on this vid. Was a bit "blurry" and hard to hear individual words.
Is that a V1 at 8:42 ??
Good doco'let.
Just open this up.
Britain never had a shortage of aircraft carriers, Britain IS an aircraft carrier, it would have been more so had they kept the channel islands. Out past the outer Hebrides their aircraft reached far into the north Atlantic
A much steadier and more polished delivery. Well done and keep it up.
What's the story of the maple leaf on the side of the planes between 9-10 min (9:47). Curious Canadians would like to know :)
What a confused video. But thanks for shout out to the Fulmar (even though you mainly show Fireflies - even in the thumbnail)
A few shots of the much better Firefly there.
RN FAA with it's wings clipped? You could argue the same today. Fair enough they have just stood up their first F35B squadron but I worry it is too little too late sometimes.
Only one thing. Most of the time you are saying Fulmar and showing film of the later Firefly.
Music for this?
I have a rather nice MPM 1/48 scale model of this aircraft!
What battleship did Fulmar kill?
Just the usual bollocks. The Fulmar never harmed any battleships. I'm beginning to think that a lot of this guff is AI generated.
"Taste the salt🧂 of the 🌊 sea"...
Lol 😂 he even repeats it as it is so good...
Don't get me wrong, I love this guy 🤣👍
Not sure where the ‘Battleship killer’ line comes from as it seems that never happened.
The majority of the carrier video's, show the Fairey Firefly not the Fulmar. Although a decendant of the Fulmar, a very different aircraft. Cheers
I take exception to the repeated negative comments on the Fairy Battle sir. Why just 30 Fairy battles could have easily won the battle of Omdurman by themselves, perhaps with as little as 15% losses.
Sometimes, just being good enough enough really is, good enough.
Anyone else note the "biplane fighters" were Stringbags?
So when did this plane EVER kill a battleship?
I didn't see any flying battleships!
A fairly good video, I've never heard of the Fulmar before. However, it apparently never once killed a battleship, and they never said what armament it was fitted with??
It's armament was 4x0.303 machine guns in each wing, in a similar fashion to the Hurricane but with a larger ammunition load. Some were fitted with 2x0.5 machine guns in each wing.
Thank you: that was all news to me.
I do not understand why it had to be so large. Even if they wanted a second crewman, I do not see why it had to be so big. I would not have liked to have been the navigator in one of those if attacked by a single seat fighter. There would be nothing you could do.
Ahh check facts. It was not 7,500 feet, but 7,500 meters. Kind of big difference in altitude.
Are those RCAF? I see the maple leaf on them?
Incredibly large amount of shots of the Firefly for a Fulmar video.
8:08 lol...rolls royce merlin 3 with afterburner?
thumbnail looks like Spitfire , with elliptical wing and those 4 big cannons ! my father served on Ark Royal WW2 .
matapan is a very interesting scrap
LHR should’ve borrowed a few of Fairey’s proving grounds runways, ha…Never heard of this aircraft ✈️ manufacturer ‘til now. 😉👍✌️
"while your trembling pupil grips for the deck..."
Gropes but close enough
'Battleship killer' turns out to have been click bait, it seems.
I swear half of this footage is the Firefly 2 seat fighter
I'm not aware of Fulmars killing any battleship. So odd choice of title.
The Fulmar wasn't a jet (8:08).
Fairey didn't develop a new engine from scratch. Rolls Royce retuned a Merlin variant.
Many of your clips actually show Fairey Fireflies; the pairs of 20mm cannons and more bubble canopy are the giveaways.
Please stop saying 'the HMS', ie 'the Her Majesty's Ship'. It doesn't make sense!
In the swirling currents of the 1930s....Such an act!
The modern monoplanes have spotted a battleship! Send in the biplanes!
Don't fool us! Many of your film clips feature the Fairey Firefly and not the Fulmar
I love the me-110
So how many battleships did this airplane kill? I counted zero. 🤔