OK I screwed up! I was confusing the maker's name with the name of the company and the aircraft nickname "Daffy" and not looking at the official name the Defiant! I plead a combination of medication and feeling like crap. Hydro a thousand pardons, you are the winner and next up! Here is an excerpt from this link:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boulton_Paul_DefiantThe Boulton Paul Defiant is a British
interceptor aircraft that served with the
Royal Air Force (RAF) during
World War II. The Defiant was designed and built by
Boulton Paul Aircraft as a "turret fighter", without any forward-firing guns, also found in the
Blackburn Roc of the
Royal Navy.
In combat, the Defiant was found to be reasonably effective at destroying bombers but was vulnerable to the
Luftwaffe's more manoeuvrable, single-seat
Messerschmitt Bf 109 fighters. The lack of forward-firing armament proved to be a great weakness in daylight combat and its potential was realised only when it was converted to
night fighting.
[2] It was supplanted as a
night fighter by the
Bristol Beaufighter and
de Havilland Mosquito. The Defiant found use in gunnery training, target towing,
electronic countermeasures and
air-sea rescue. Among RAF pilots it had the nickname "Daffy"