Today In Aviation: First Flight Of Fairey Battle

Today we celebrate the first flight of the Fairey Battle.

The Fairey Battle is a British single-engine light bomber that was
designed and manufactured by the Fairey Aviation Company. It was
developed during the mid-1930s for the Royal Air Force (RAF) as a
monoplane successor to the Hawker Hart and Hind biplanes. The Battle
was powered by the