Summary: Having recently talked about of couple of embarrassingly awful US World War 2 aircraft it wouldn’t be fair if I didn’t mention some from my side of the Atlantic that were knocked together in the jolly old British Isles! Sadly, there are way too many to cover so I’ll just take a deep breath and mention a few!<br> <br> <br> <br> Adverts for Boulton and Paul garden sunrooms.<br> <br> <br> <br> The Wonderful Airfix Defiant model.<br> <br> <br> <br> The ungainly Rhino parachute that the Defiant gunners wore.<br> <br> <br> <br> The Sopwith Camel that Boulton Paul built under licence.<br> <br> <br> <br> Boulton Paul had become well known as a turret manufacturer.<br> <br> <br> <br> The ungainly Rhino parachute that the Defiant gunners had to cope with.<br> <br> <br> <br> Boulton Paul Defiants lined up on the ground.<br> <br> <br> <br> Taken out of front line operations the Defiant found a place as a target tug aircraft.<br> <br> <br> <br> The large and slow Fairey Battle.<br> <br> <br> <br> The Battle's bomb aimer's position.<br> <br> <br> <br> Bombing up a Battle.<br> <br> <br> <br> How many apprentices does it take to push a Fairey Battle?<br> <br> <br> <br> The Fairey Swordfish.<br> <br> <br> <br> The aircraft due to replace the Swordfish, the Fairey Albacore.<br> <br> <br> <br> An Albacore departs from HMS Victorious.<br> <br> <br> <br> The damaged and sunk capital ships of the Italian Navy after the Battle of Taranto.<br> <br> <br> <br> Images under Creative Commons licence with thanks to Boulton & Paul Ltd, Airfix, the RAF, Air Historic Branch RAF, RN, and The Australian War Memorial Collection,
