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Title: Sink the Bismark -- Fairey Swordfish
Post by: Hap on September 17, 2013, 07:46:51 PM
http://viooz.co/movies/9403-sink-the-bismarck-1960.html
Title: Re: Sink the Bismark -- Fairey Swordfish
Post by: zack1234 on September 18, 2013, 12:19:17 AM
Fantastic plane :old:

The Bismark was owned by a Bi-Plane :old:

And yes "IT" was owned, no myths please about it being not owned :old:

Title: Re: Sink the Bismark -- Fairey Swordfish
Post by: Scherf on September 18, 2013, 01:08:09 AM
Rather a close-run thing though, old chap.

 :old:
Title: Re: Sink the Bismark -- Fairey Swordfish
Post by: MrRiplEy[H] on September 18, 2013, 01:17:56 AM
Fantastic plane :old:

The Bismark was owned by a Bi-Plane :old:

And yes "IT" was owned, no myths please about it being not owned :old:



I read that the computerized fire control of the Bismarck couldn't compensate for the slow speed of the Swordfish. The shots went long and thats why the Swordfishes survived their suicide missions.
Title: Re: Sink the Bismark -- Fairey Swordfish
Post by: zack1234 on September 18, 2013, 01:37:25 AM
Yes and the Swordfish were very modern biplanes at the time, with short take off distances :)

Bloke who dropped torpedo is still alive I believe :old:

Not a good place to be on a ship in the middle of know where :old:
Title: Re: Sink the Bismark -- Fairey Swordfish
Post by: Rich46yo on September 18, 2013, 03:56:30 AM
I have the DVD or else I'd be pissed I have to go to work without being able to watch this. I always thought for the time the modeling of the ships, and high speed film, was excellent. HMS Hood blowing up, 40:40, was very realistic.
Title: Re: Sink the Bismark -- Fairey Swordfish
Post by: Curval on September 18, 2013, 06:31:01 AM
Geoffrey "Dickey" Bird.  He flew Swordfish from Ark Royal but was not involved in the Bismark action as he was still in training at the time.  He later bombed the Tirpitz four separate times in another bomber, not a Swordfish.  I asked him if he hit it and he replied "No idea, old chap.  They had smoke pots burning to hide the bugger.  A couple of us did, I'll never know if I was one".  If you went to the Indy Con he was one of the guest speakers.  This was taken at the Dayton Airshow:

(http://i1196.photobucket.com/albums/aa409/Christopher_Morris/dickybird.jpg)
Title: Re: Sink the Bismark -- Fairey Swordfish
Post by: Hap on September 18, 2013, 07:03:28 AM
If you went to the Indy Con he was one of the guest speakers. 
I recollect him!
Title: Re: Sink the Bismark -- Fairey Swordfish
Post by: GScholz on September 18, 2013, 08:56:45 AM
I read that the computerized fire control of the Bismarck couldn't compensate for the slow speed of the Swordfish. The shots went long and thats why the Swordfishes survived their suicide missions.

From an interview with one of the Bismarck survivors it was dark and with 50 foot waves, and the Swordfish were flying NOE in between the waves. The German gunners were blinded by their own fire and didn't see sheit.