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Currently Playing: The Fairey Fox: The Plane That Defied the Air Ministry

Although it isn’t widely remembered, the Fairey Fox was in fact one of the most important aircraft of the interwar period. The impact of its performance versus Ministry requirements was such that six years after it emerged a senior executive in the Ministry referred to it as “the Fairey Fox agitation”. This is the story of an aircraft that broke and rewrote the British Air Ministry's aircraft design rules.