Tony’s Scrapbook: Fairey Hendon
The Fairey Hendon was designed in response to an Air Ministry specification for a long-range, all-metal night bomber. It was Fairey’s first monoplane bomber design and one of the first all-metal monoplanes built for the Royal Air Force. The prototype flew in 1930, and the aircraft entered service in the mid-1930s. The Fairey Hendon was…