Westland Welkin: Britain’s High-Flying Guardian

The Westland Welkin fighter, whose name basically meant “sky,” “heavens,” or “upper air” in Old English, was created during the Second World War to defend Britain against Germany’s highest-flying aircraft. In designing it Westland Aircraft capitalized on the experience it had gained from the development of its Whirlwind model, while also pioneering technologies characteristic of warplanes intended for waging combat in stratosphere. The Junkers menace.