Ordered straight from the drawing board in 1935 the Bristol
Type 142, later called the Blenheim was, for its time, a very advanced
aircraft but by the outbreak of the Second World War it had been
overtaken by fighter development.
Seeing service across all the major fronts of the Second World War,
the Blenheim was used extensively by the RAF as both a light bomber and
fighter before being phased out of service in 1943, replaced by more
modern types less vulnerable to enemy fighters.
