Comments by "Big Blue" (@bigblue6917) on "Why didn't the Bismarck shoot down any Swordfish?" video.

Thanks for this, it filled in a number of gaps in my knowledge of this attack. I knew about the problem of the speed of the aircraft flying below that to which the anti-aircraft could deal with, but, as always with these things, there is more to it then that. Some, such as the movement of the ship at sea, is an age old problem, which is why they used to fight so close to each other. Then when you bring in the weather and the aircraft's movement you do start to see why hitting a target could be so hard. I know there is this thing where an attacking aircraft should not make a second run because the gunners will have gotten their eye in, which is a good enough reason for the two which did not attack let discretion be the better part of valour.
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I forgot to mention that a saw a swordfish some years ago when I worked for British Aerospace. I believe it was one of the Royal Navy Historic Flight Swordfish's. It was much bigger then I thought it would be.
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