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Fairey Barracuda torpedo aircraft for the Royal Navy. Main components made by Blackburn Aircraft Co Ltd, in Leeds included tail plane, elevators, fin, rudder, ailerons, flaps, main wing spans, cockpit structures. It entered service in 1943, carrying 3 crew in tandem cockpits with a long greenhouse canopy, 2572 were built of all marks. Service was with Fleet Air Arm units, including attacks on the Tirpitz, also with the British Pacific Fleet and into the post-war period. | License: | http://www.leodis.net/article.aspx?id=12 | Rights holder: | Leeds Central Library | Subjects: | Blackburn Aircraft Fairey Barracuda | Source: | Leodis - A photographic archive of Leeds | Identifier: | http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?id=20... | Go to resource |
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