WHERE ARE THE DEFIANTS?
Boulton-Paul Defiant fighting *planes have been strangely out of the news since Dunkirk. A clue to the cause of this might be found in an American report that they were taken out of service until a remedy could be found for a blind-spot which pilots and gunners had discovered in the defences of this fast, two-man machine. "Time" reported at the end of October that the U.S.A. and Britain were gearing, production so that such important and patent-protected accessories as power-operated gun turrets could be fitted to ’planes before they left America. In addition, "a fatal blind spot in the belly, which made the Defiant flop when the Germans got on to it after Dunkirk ... was recognised and corrected." temporarily famous
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 4, Issue 79, 27 December 1940, Page 2
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125WHERE ARE THE DEFIANTS? New Zealand Listener, Volume 4, Issue 79, 27 December 1940, Page 2
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