Fairey Fulmar: The Fleet Air Arm's Unlikely Hero

The remarkable story of how a make-do fighter proved itself indispensable in the harshest theatres of war

Fairey Fulmar –The Fleet Air Arm’s Unlikely Hero charts, for the first time, the full history of the Fairey Fulmar naval fighter. A hastily converted light bomber, rejected by the RAF and increasingly obsolete against Messerschmitts and Zeroes, somehow the Fulmar became the top-scoring Royal Navy fighter aircraft of World War II. This first comprehensive study of the Fulmar’s design, dev...