|
Armstrong Whitworth Whitley |
|
 Described by the late Charles
Turner-Hughes, Armstrong's Chief Test Pilot, "The Whitley was an aircraft full of
character, a hard worker and certainly an accomplished type for the period. For an
aircraft which was designed and flown in the mid-1930's to be still in operational service
two years after the Lancaster was introduced into Bomber Command's armoury indicates the
success that was born of Armstrong Whitworth's design team, although the Whitley was often
overshadowed by it's more famous companions." Armstrong
Whitworth Whitley Mk V |
| The Whitley aircraft was used in : |
| The first leaflet raid over Germany
on 3/4 September 1939 The first sortie over Berlin on 1/2 October 1939 The first bombing attack on mainland Germany night 10/11 May 1940 The first raid on Italy 11/12 June 1940 The first operations by British Airborne Troops 10/11 February 1941 The first successful Coastal Command Attack on a U-Boat without Naval Assistance, 30 November 1941 The first British Aircraft to
have a four-gun tail turret! |
| © Air Britain Historians Ltd- The Whitley File. See Bibliography |
