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Trumpeter 1/48 Scale Royal Air Force Fairey Battle Mk I WWII Light Bomber Model Kit The Fairey Battle was a British single-engine light bomber built by the Fairey Aviation Company in the late 1930s f more→or the Royal Air Force. The Battle was powered by the same Rolls-Royce Merlin piston engine that gave contemporary British fighters high performance; however, the Battle was weighed down with a three-man crew and a bomb load. Despite being a great improvement on the aircraft that preceded it, by the time it saw action it was slow, limited in range and highly vulnerable to both anti-aircraft fire and fighters with its single defensive .303 machine gun. During the "Phoney War", the Fairey Battle recorded …