Thread: Whispering death, the forgotten RAAF fighter/bomber

The beaufighter is another one of those fascinating aircraft. Basically wartime improvisation: Take a bomber that is already in production, new slimmer fuselage, fit the largest available engines - result, a very successful heavy fighter and ground attack aircraft. While not as quite fast as single engined fighters of the era, it had competitive rate of climb, and far longer range and much greater firepower. And it was very rugged.

John