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    The success of ordering the Fairey Firefly off the drawing board

    A variety of sources such as Fairey Firefly | Tangmere Museum quoted below repeat much the same story of how the Fairey Firefly design started in 1939 and was pushed by the Admiralty as rapidly as possible. Note that the specification N5/40 was essentially written around Fairey's proposal...
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