{"id":184902,"date":"2025-03-11T15:00:12","date_gmt":"2025-03-11T05:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/uk-fairey-battle-flying-coffin\/"},"modified":"2025-03-11T15:00:12","modified_gmt":"2025-03-11T05:00:12","slug":"why-was-the-uks-fairey-battle-called-a-flying-coffin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=184902","title":{"rendered":"Why Was The UK&#8217;s Fairey Battle Called A &#8220;Flying Coffin&#8221;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The United Kingdom\u2019s         <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"257150\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/royal-air-force\/\"  >Royal Air Force<\/a><\/span> operated dozens of different aircraft models during the Second World War, with some of the most famous <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/why-is-the-supermarine-spitfire-so-iconic\/\" >being the Supermarine Spitfire air superiority fighter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/avro-lancaster-bomber-success-analysis\/\" >the Avro Lancaster strategic bomber<\/a>, which will forever live in history. However, <strong>not all aircraft of the conflict have the same aura surrounding their names<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The aircraft has a sinister reputation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,1455,412,411,701],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-bomber","category-military","category-royal-air-force","category-united-kingdom"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=184902"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":184903,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184902\/revisions\/184903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=184902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=184902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=184902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}