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Fairey Gannet's are MAGIC!!
Posted by AndyG on Fri Feb 27, 2004 03:19:02 PM
In reply top Fairey Gannett Snapped Up posted by Al Moore on Thu Feb 26, 2004 06:29:20 PM
I can't wait to hear and see a Gannet again in the UK, fantastic!! As a schoolboy I remember watching and photographing from the end of the runway the closing years of 849 Sq.'s AEW's, performing endless circuits and bumps at the former RNAS at RAF Lossiemouth (AKA HMS Fulmar)in the absence of a carrier to operate from... (Bless the Labour party once again.....)
A much maligned aeroplane in my opinion. The Double Mamba was a lovely sound, interesting to watch one land with one of the (contra-rotating) propellors feathered too.
Strange people these Navy types.... My father (RAF) arrived in '76 as the Navy were