The plane was ordered as a replacement for both the Swordfish and yet another Fairey warbird bearing an ichthyological moniker, the Albacore biplane. A total of 2,602 airframes (one prototype ...

The bigger shock: It worked. The Fairey Swordfish prototype bore the initials TSR for torpedo, spotter, reconnaissance. It had a crew of three: pilot, observer (navigator), and telegraphist–air ...

When the DEA shut down its dummy corporation operation codenamed SWORDFISH in 1986, they had generated $400 million which they let sit around; fifteen years of compound interest has swelled it to ...