Fairey Fulmar

The Fleet Air Arms 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 Arms 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. The Fairey Fulmar was the Fleet Air Arms top-scoring fighter of World War II. However, this simple fact belies the contradictions at the heart of the Fulmars story how a hastily converted light bomber, rejected by the RAF and increasingly obsolete against Messerschmitts and Zeroes, held the line during the Royal Navys darkest hour. When it entered service in 1940, at the height of the Battle of Britain, the Fulmar seemed to put the Navys aviators on an equal footing with The Few,