Tamiya 61079 - 1/48 Transparent Swordfish Mk.I  [61079]

Towards Fairey Swordfish Mk.We (Clear Version)

On Nov.11, 1940 at 2100 hours, the Italian Fleet at Taranto, Italy slept quietly inside the Mediterranean moonlight. The Italian Fleet, including six battleships ended up being well protected by submarine nets, barrage balloons and anti-aircraft firearms at biggest naval harbor in Italy. 270km away, twelve torpedo bombers travelled from decks for this British aircraft provider, Illustrious. At 2300 hours and nonetheless undetected, the twelve aircraft made a lower altitude entry to your airspace over the harbor and started torpedo bombing the Italian Fleet. At 2400 hours, another revolution of eight torpedo bombers made still another incursion.
Conte di Cavour, Littorio, alongside major warships was indeed either sunk or actually damaged, working a crippling blow on Italian Fleet. Due to its success at Taranto, the name of Royal Navy's primary torpedo bomber, the Fairey Swordfish, had been indeed made immediately famous. Making its maiden journey in 1934, the Swordfish was designed with a two-level main wing and a tough and fast landing gear. Its fuselage and wings contains metal pipeline structures covered in textile. The ability plant linked to the Swordfish, an air-cooled Bristol Pegasus radial engine produced 690hp, for a premier rate of only 220km/h.

But due to the superb manueverability, 1700km range, and ability to carry on 18 ins torpedo or two 500 lb bombs or six 250 pound bombs, the Swordfish later contributed such missions as the downing of German battleship Bismarck. The Swordfish proceeded traveling within frontline before end about the war.