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The British Aircraft Industry – Fairey Aviation
Author: Roy Evans
A series of books that cover the British Aircraft Industry in the Twentieth Century. From young men interested in ballooning or making model aircraft, they developed aircraft for wartime and passenger transport.
Richard Fairy started his career as an electrical engineer but he had the same strong ambition to fly as other contemporise of his time. After a spell with Short Brothers, Fairy Aviation was created during The Great War. Richard Fairy went on to design and build aircraft throughout the 1920s and 30s.
Many designs were produced and the Battle, and Swordfish all saw military service in WW2.
After the war, development in fast jets and helicopters saw the company through to the late 1950s, when it was absorbed into the Westland Aircraft Group.
Iconic post war projects included the Fairey Rotodyne and the Fairey Delta 2. Both of these aircraft could have been developed in Britain, but for various reasons failed to materialise.
Author: Roy Evans has been a keen amateur military historian for forty years, studying the United States 8th Army Air Force, when he lived in East Anglia and more recently whilst living in Northamptonshire, Royal Air Force Bomber Command. Roy is a member of several organisations, supporting the Lincolnshire Lancaster Association for the last twenty five years and also the Lincolnshire Aviation Heritage Centre at East Kirkby.
As a member of the Royal Air Force Historical Society for several years he regularly attends their meetings. He is the Retford U3A Group Leader for their Military History Group and is a regular speaker at their monthly meetings.
He has also written a number of books and has had a number of works published in specialist aviation magazines. He is a regular contributor to the Lincolnshire Lancaster Association’s journal ‘Memorial Flight’.
