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X-Plane 9+ Fairey Swordfish. The Fairey Swordfish was a torpedo bomber biplane designed by the Fairey Aviation Company and used by the Fleet Air Arm of the Royal Navy during the Second World War. For those of you that are unaware of the origin of the plane's nickname "string bag", that was a common British shopping accessory that could accommodate almost any manner of purchase. The Swordfish, similarly, could carry almost any weapon that could be hung aboard, so thus 'string bag" became a honorific nickname rather than a derisive term. By Ron Norvelle.