What others are airworthy around the world, apart from this Aussie one?
Meteor turn by errolgc, on Flickr

Some discussion by Aussie academic Brett Holman on Waiting for Hitler: Voices from Britain on the Brink of Invasion by Midge Gillies

http://airminded.org/2008/01/26/the-day-of-the-parashot/

One of the aspects of Waiting for Hitler I appreciated was Gillies’ attention to rumours and panics as an index of the insecurity of the British people as they prepared for a possible German invasion. These are fascinating. For example, the slit trenches being dug in Hyde Park were said to be for mass burials in the aftermath of air raids, not protection from bombs. Troops practicing machine-gunning a buoy in a Cornish harbour turned into the accidental death of a boy by machine-gun fire the next day, and then the massacre of dozens of children on the beach the next, strafed by German aeroplanes.

Over twenty years of work,and the team who rebuilt Black 6 knew she would only fly for a few years. The desert and Mediterranean theaters are woefully unrepresented at Hendon.

Yes, I’m glad that one of the NZ Spitfires is in a North Africa scheme.

I would guess at first that may be the case and then maybe the end happened too quick for them to get that bad feeling BUT i would think that after a while you realised the odds were getting lower and lower [although in hindsight experience would increase your chances to a degree ] .The power of youth and optimism,but that can only last so long.

Didn’t someone fairly recently work out that experience had very little or no measurable effect on Bomber Command loss rates on operations?
Which makes sense if you never get to see the NF putting 30mm shells into your belly.

It has been said that the reason no Swordfish were shot down during the attack was because the guns on the Bismarck could not compensate for an aircraft flying so slowly.
I would like to challenge this assumption.
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I seem to remember reading an extensive debunking of this somewhere, but a quick Google didn’t find it.
I did find this interesting discussion http://www.kbismarck.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=65
Unfortunately some of the most interesting points are unreferenced.

Some points made there:

The main problem was that the after port and starboard batteries were controlled primarily by the two after directors which in the case of Bismarck, were unstabilized, twin axis directors installed as a stopgap measure until the proper ones could be manufactured and fitted. The German government, in keeping to its obligations under the Soviet-German trade agreement, had provided the Russians with four of their most modern FlaK directors–the two after ones from Bismarck, and the two foreward ones from Prinz Eugen. Thus Bismarck and Prinz Eugen each went to sea with a pair of inferior directors which were not fully integrated into the FlaK fire control system. Prinz Eugen later received two fully stabilized triaxis directors to replace those sent to the USSR, while Tirpitz was completed with hers.

The inspection of the Flak was ccut short in protest of the AVKS, they were incomplete, large portions were cancelled, i.e, the Flak crew did not receive proper training training such as the 38 cm crews did, though even their training, according to the AVKS, was not adequate due to instrumentation still uninstalled and poor targets construction etc.

I think you will discover that most of the swordfish attacks were launched in deep twilight or even nautical darkness. Roskill states that the 1st attack commenced at midnight on the 25th of may. The 2nd, crippling attack commenced at 20:47 on the 26th of may. No swordfish were shot down because the gunners were probably blinded by by the flash of thier guns and/or because it was simply too dark to locate the aircraft.

For the record I think it should be remembered that while none of the Swordfish were lost it certainly wasn’t the case that they were not hit by German fire