ONE OF BRITAIN’S MOST POTENT WEAPONS OF DEFENCE, the two-seat turret Boulton Paul "Defiant” machine. An interesting feature of this aircraft, illustrated by this newly-released picture, is the specially designed power-operated four-gun turret behind the pilot. This fighter, a low-wing cantilever monoplane, has a three-blade all-metal variable pitch, airscrew, driven by a Rolls Royce Merlin engine, giving a speed of 300 miles an hour.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 January 1941, Page 6
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64ONE OF BRITAIN’S MOST POTENT WEAPONS OF DEFENCE, the two-seat turret Boulton Paul "Defiant” machine. An interesting feature of this aircraft, illustrated by this newly-released picture, is the specially designed power-operated four-gun turret behind the pilot. This fighter, a low-wing cantilever monoplane, has a three-blade all-metal variable pitch, airscrew, driven by a Rolls Royce Merlin engine, giving a speed of 300 miles an hour. Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 January 1941, Page 6
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