Fairey Swordfish LS326/L2 Start Up & Take Off
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- Опубликовано: 25 авг 2024
- Fairey Swordfish Mk2 (LS326/L2) full engine start up, power checks, taxi and take off from RNAS Yeovilton (EGDY) The aircraft is owned by The Royal Navy and was first flown on 17th April 1934. It was designed to be a torpedo bomber. It was retired on 21 May 1945, but still flies today thanks to all the engineers and pilots that maintain her in the Historic Flight department at Yeovilton.
Здорово что есть такие люди которые занимаются этим делом, приятно смотреть на самолёт который до сих пор в строю! Удачи Вам.
Old Stringbag , a Legend of an Airplane 👌🏻😎
Great that it's flying again, I have just showed this to my Dad who used to sit in the middle seat (Observer/Navigator). Up front was Laurence Olivier at the controls! He and the Fleet Air Arm were not ideally suited!
When I was a kid, I lived just a few hundred yards from the airfield, and saw this aircraft very often ! aaaaah , the memories ! :-)
This was my first float plane in flight sim. Still among my favourites. It's great to see the real deal. Thank you.
My Farther flew these during WW2. Just great to see vision of it. Still have his log books will see if he ever did any training for that station. He continued his flying post war in Australia. His last aircraft he flew was a Focker Fellowship ( F28). He had a great affection for the Swordfish.
Thanks for the vision.
Sometimes overlooked is the Sword fish contribution to convoy escort. Operating from escort carriers and armed with air -surface vessel radar and rockets the Swordfish was very effective patrol aircraft. Often their mere presence deterring an attack by a U-boat by forcing it to dive to safety they saved many ships. They were also credited with 20+ sunk in the Atlantic. They were also used as search/rescue, locating downed aircrew or survivors.
If you can find a copy, Charles Lamb wrote a great little book about these aircraft titled: " To War in a Stringbag"
With many humourous events, like nipping over to a friend who owned an inn in France, to find out how far the Germans had got in their blitzkrieg and walking in to find it full of them eating and drinking. Apologizing and the crew belting back to the field outside to go through this starting procedure and escape back to Britain without a scratch. Great book and I really must find a copy to read again.
Outstanding guys and it fires right up. What a treasure. No question, the guys who flew these in combat had nerves of steel and cast Iron balls.
Truly a LEGENDARY aircraft, and one with a robust beauty all her own. I just love the Swordfish. 🥰👍
Sank a bigger tonnage of axis shipping than any other design in ww2......incredible aircraft.
Yep, thats due in part to the good Torpedo's it had. USN had lousy torpedo's at the start and for the first few years of WW2. Swordfish was a good old plane.
A beauty, never seen a tail dragger this beautiful!
I saw one of these Swordfish aircraft on display at the Canadian Sheerwater display...I was amazed at the size of this airplane.
The cockpit was as high off the ground as the top deck of a double decker bus.
Beautifully restored and maintained. Superb to see it fly.
I spent a week working at Yeovilton. I had access to behind the small Blue Door. I had the privilege of helping to push this venerable old lady out of the hanger. Most treasured memory
Un hermoso avión, con mucha historia. Llegó tarde a la era de los biplanos, y sin embargo, se ganó un lugar destacado en la aviación naval británica durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial.
Qué bueno que lo hayan podido preservar así.
Increíblemente esto termino por inutilizar y hundir al Bismarck porque la artillería antiaérea explotaba delante del swordfish por su lentitud Xdddddddddd
Mis respetos para la Royal Navy 😂
Turning over prop prior to start clears the oil out of the lower cylinders so that they don't hydraulically lock and blow off upon engine start.
That was a problem with the Sea Fury until they decided ignition kill switches were a good idea. {my cousin was trained on these 'planes for the RAN between '48 and '50]
I thought they were winding up the rubber band. Just joking, it's a great plane flown by pilots with guts.
I sprayed that aircraft back in 94 for the battle of Taranto celebration at the Yeovilton dope shop. We used WW2 drawings and cellulose paint. It was difficult working out how we would strip the old paint off. Those were the days.
Imagine flying that off a carrier in the North Atlantic and taking on the biggest, baddest Battleship in the German Navy! Respect.
The courage it took must have been tremendous. I can't imagine
Remember a interview with one of the pilots on that mission saying his gunner was hanging upside down on the side of the plane telling him to wait till the right time to drop the torpedo into the waves all that time with that huge battleship firing all her guns at them!! True heroes
My thoughts exactly, each plane must have come with three wheelbarrows for them to carry their "you know what's in" when they were on the deck. Courage beyond belief.
@@markbrown351 Agreed, John Moffat was the pilot and Observer Dusty Miller called the drop.
The 3 guys' balls probably weighed more than the torpedo!!
Great video! It was neat to see that the Swordfish still needs the hand crank to get the engine started. I would love to see somebody bring one of these over here to the states!
What a lovely looking biplane , Dad remembered them from serving on Ark Royal , with great affection . Good to see her flying . Wales UK .
Many Swordfish of HMS Illustrious sunks three italian battle ships and one cruiser on Battle of Taranto. In 1940.
My father, was serving onboard HMS Illustrious at that time.
The attack on Taranto was so successful, the Japanese imitated it at Pearl Harbor in 1941.
Mark T.
However the United States Navy ignored the success of the Taranto raid. Pearl Harbor was a sad commentary on our complacency.
@Phil Allison
It was another 4 years with many failed attempts before high level bombing was able to take out capital ships. In 1944, RAF used the supersonic 5 ton Tallboys against Tirpitz. Even then, it took three missions to sink the ship.
This Makes me proud and honored. My now 93 year old grandpa was one of the telegraphist-air gunners during the sinking of the Bismarck. However him and his pilot got lost in the heavy fog and were forced to crash land in Sweden where he was then a POW until the end of the war.
I have one slight problem with a Swordfish crew getting lost in the Atlantic and ending up some 1,500 miles away, the range of the Swordfish was just over 500 miles when carrying a Torpedo.
Wow that sound at 1:42 ! nice one sounds lovely
Nice to see such an old and rare bird in action.
Great to see this old girl fly again. Didn't look much...but sank many tons of enemy shipping...and played no small part in the sinking of the Bismark.
Its great to hear those stories. Thanks for sharing and I hope this video reminds you of him and all the other braze men who fought for us when we needed them most.
Beautiful bird.
That's awesome, well done great to finally see one flying
I love the strinbag. Fantastic! Thanks for sharing, and greets from the Netherlands!
What's amazing about the Swordfish, it's powered by the Bristol Pegasus IIIM.3 9-cylinder radial engine. Out of 32,000 built only 2 remain airworthy and those 2 power the 2 airworthy Swordfish aircraft that are flying still today in the UK
Nice! Love to see one of these flying in the states!
it left 2 yrs ago-still not there yet!
My admiration to the Royal Navy who went after the Bismarck in these aircraft.
Taking off risked the carrier’s bow rising into the plane. Landing? Even worse. How do you match the rise & fall of the ship? But, these were probably the only aircraft of their day that could operate in North Atlantic swell. They were used throughout WW2.
Great to see & hear this classic taking off.
My father was a navigator flying Swordfishes (old Stringbag) from the MAC ships in Dutch 860 Naval Air squadron in 1944/45.
I very much agree, thanks for watching :)
Weak Britty Boys........don't pay attention to my last name, smile! What a stunning Swordfish---Fairey made really nifty airplanes (especially the Gannet). Thank you for this vid and historical peep.
THE GUY IN THE MIDDLE MAKES TEA ANDVWARMS THE CRUMPETS
Tea, anybody? We are civilized, afterall.
@@ingolfleiblle6661 lol
124 kts top speed, take away/add any wind speed on the day, factor in Bismark moving at 20 odd knots obliquely..... How the bloody hell did any come back? Brave lads.
Gott in Himmel, Hans, vhy is it zat our gunnery systems are saying nothing can fly that slowly and our shells just pass through it ???
Is this the Tommy secret vepon ?
He （or she）is the one of the greatest bird of the Britain
Brings back memories of group commander Tarquin Bogtrotter the 4th
The Tarento night. I ❤ the swordfish.
The best looking aircraft of WW2,,,just something about her lines.
Very brave men
Music to my ears.
Excelente vídeo, belas imagens. Toda máquina voadora é fascinante, desde um simples avião de papel até a complexidade de um UFO.
Can't imagine attacking a massively armed and armoured battleship flying something so slow and low. Plenty of time for the enemy to take a lot of shots at you 😯
The Fairey 'stringbag' was one great aeroplane. The mark XX111 Bristol engine had 1100bhp and weighed 1100 pounds.
First engine to achieve pound per horsepower. It was way ahead of it's time with 4-valve aluminum alloy head and crank
case and I could go on and on. Stingbag was responsible for shortening WW11 by sinking so many german battleships.
sinking of the italian fleet at Taranto among them, often overlooked because of the Swordfish's contribution in sinking Bismarck by fixing it's rudder.
Fabulous!
Never expected to see a "stringbag" in action on RUclips - must get down to Yeovilton for a visit soon.
Честь и слава пилотам "Рыба-меч"!
Cranking the handle operated the inertia starter. A flywheel turning very fast and storing energy. Pilot lets in a clutch and that energy is used to turn over the engine and hopefully start it!
But if the clutch was misadjusted all that energy was lost.
So one had to readjust the clutch, while an impatient pilot was tapping his foot.
Then wind up the flywheel again, and hope it grabs this time.
You made that mistake ONCE, and not again.😤
I like the vid man it's nice to hear my dads voice thank you so much
My mother, now 90, has a photo of LS326 taken at Shobdon decades ago, with a chap called Pat alongside it (she described him as its owner???), but unlike these later images, it has the LS326 marking on it, and 5A.
Well that is possible because the Swordfish was originally civil registered as G-AJVH with the Fairey Aviation co,however before that it was restored by a chap called Vivian Bellamy at Eastleigh who was ex FAA who operated it for some time,Mr Bellamy also restored the surviving Gloster Gladiator also civil registered as G-AMRK now kept with the Shuttleworth Trust at Old Warden..
Amazing God bless you whoever the pilot was
Imagine doing that on a rolling ship at sea. Human ingenuity is amazing :)
The Fairey Swordfish, (Stringbag) history during WWII:
1. Assisted in the Second Battle of Navik, Norway in April/May 1940.
2. Assisted in the British attack at Mers-el-Kébir in Algeria, (then French North Africa) in July 1940 against the Vichy French.
3. Crippled and sank half the Italian Navy at Taranto in November 1940 in one night, which later led to the Italian Navy's demise. Also the attack might have inspired and helped plan the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour in December 1941.
4. Crippled the Bismarck, which led to the ship's sinking.
5. Sank more Axis shipping than any other Allied aircraft in WWII.
6. Last the entire war without any other aircraft meant to replace the plane.
Would have enjoyed to see the wings being deployed...This aircraft out served two subsequent design replacements. tough old bird...
Big engine to start with inertia starter. Impressive.
beautiful aircraft.....
My favourite aircraft totally out of date by WW2 yet flown by hero's and stuck one over on the high tech of the day.
First plane to kill a sub with rockets.
And only plane I know of that flew with the top cylinder of its radial blown off.
Lee B: I think a few P47 Thunderbolt radials suffered a similar fate but that's not to take anything away from your superb comment..I couldn't have put it better myself. We can all imagine ourselves as a pilot in WW2 engaging in high speed dogfights in a high tech Spit or Mustang... but to have to go to war in a String bag or an Albacore???How did they ever fly off the deck s when their brass balls were that heavy. As for their missions; ' Here you go lads, the target is smaller than any power-station/bridge/viaduct factory or railway station...its moving in 3 dimensions...its armed to the teeth with highly concentrated Ak-Ak defences...IF you make a return you're flying over open water, mother nature's against you so your survival rate if you put down is near zero...and your mobile-home airport is a few hundred feet long....lot's of luck gentlemen'. There are only a few days go by when these aircrews are not on my mind...how did they do it, time and time again?
LB: Numerous aircraft lost cylinders and returned from missions. That reliablity is the primary reason why navies chose radial engines.
A thing of beauty, in a functional and effective (not necessarily aesthetic) kind of way, proved its worth thousands of times in WW 2--and then some.
Oh. But definitely aesthetic.
@@acrobaticcripple8176 - You're right, I take back what I said. Aesthetic AND ICONIC.
They sit pretty high in the saddle in this beast
@russthebiker thats very kind of you. thanks for informing me of that :) that exhibition sounds interesting!
It would likely evade detection/ hypersonic/phalanx et al... even today......I bet it could get one off if given the mission.....slow.
stealth....... 10' above the waves....
...The plane changed the course of Naval History ..after Taranto the Batleship became obsolete and Navies inderstood the power of Naval Avaition and the Carrier...still relevant today.
There were 5 at an auction in tillsonberg Ontario Canada back in the 70s someone bought all of them .the auction was at a rural farm full of I'll call it surplus military equipment the collection was massive supposedly the swordfish were for a movie in Briton fond memories of the auction
it is indeed! thanks for your comment
Oh yes it is just amazing how they did it!
These old kites managed to torpedo the Bismarck without one of them being shot down! 🇬🇧👍👏🎖
Beautiful
it's a loveable,tough old bird !
They are turning the prop through to look for what radial engines are prone to do is hydraulic lock. The oil flows down to the bottom 2 or 3 cylinders and so if a hydraulic lock is present all they have to do is remove 1 of the 2 spark plugs out of the 3 cylinders and drain the oil collected in the bottom 3 cylinders
The italian navy disliked this video.
Fantastic aeroplane.
A great crate...the immortal "Stringbag"!
beautiful "stringbag."had lot to do with sinking the "bismark."
The Swordfish torpedo on exploding messed up the rudder. Bismark could only turn in circles as the rudder
was jammed full right from the blast. The ship that cannot steer was a sitting duck to the English destroyers.
As a Scot my dad must have been a mercenary serving on an "English" destroyer and an "English" aircraft carrier , and by the way what were the English fleet doing parked in Scappa flo Scotland if they unilaterally declared war on Germany.
Tabourba : let's keep the comments relevant to the video. Political rants go elsewhere. Or I'll have you brought up on charges.
Whaligeo I totally agree with your sentiments but lets put this down to a mistake . ?
This is the plane that took down the Bismark.
Thanks for your comment. I am not certain about the take off distance, but I do know that this aircraft can take off at a very low speed, so I imagine, even when fully loaded and without the catapult, it would not need much of a run at all. If I had to make a guess, it would be under 200 meters.
STOL It had leading edge slats on the wings allowing a laminar flow of air over the top of the wings.
How often do they have to wind that thing up to keep the propeller spinning ?
I did not know that any of these still existed, much less one in flyable condition. 21 Swordfish carried out the 1st carrier attack on an enemy fleet in history at a place called Taranto. It was also the plane that destroyed Bismarck's rudder with a torpedo, which made it possible for the British fleet to catch and sink that battleship in 1941.
Hitting the rudder was not intentional, the Pilot Died about a year ago.
I have known about this Swordfish from the 60s when I first saw it fly!
one fact often forgotten, Taranto also was the idea behind Pearl Harbour, the Japanese gained all the info. they could about the raid from the US, so we caused Pearl Harbour to be planned and executed, with help of the US. By an old 1930s plane.
tom lucas >>> The belief that Pearl Harbor was *too shallow* for torpedo bombers to work was a *VERY BIG* mistake....
Dambuster the intention was to hit the Bismarck with a torpedo, in doing that it achieved the purpose of the attack. Had it been hit amidships there may not have been a need fo it to be finished off.
Very nice, I love the Swordfish, although it wasn't the most advanced torpedo bomber of its time ;)
No probs, I believe they were used on both ships
I heard and read comments about the Swordfish as being a dangerous aircraft to fly and hard to handle.
LC: No more hard to fly than any naval aircraft of the era, and no more dangerous.
@Luis Cirilo - regardless of what you heard, all the reports of those who flew them, in war and in peace, say the opposite - that the Swordfish was very easy to fly.
The most advanced ww1 aircraft ever to fly in ww2
Matthew Spry it did not enter service until the late 30s
@@pmaynard6240 1936 that's later than I thought. It Should of come with a bayonet on the front it's such an old design 👍
Grand old Lady :D
Dunno why, but I just imagined this happening on the deck of an aircraft carrier, in the midst of a rainy morning.
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Makes me sad to see this. I was in the last batch of Fairey Apprentices for the Hydraulics Div. at the old Heston Airdrome in 1967. All gone now, as are Avro, Hawker, Supermarine to name but a few.
How can I get the job holding down the horizontal stabilizer during run-up?
@SirFlight cheers !
Lt.Cmdr. Eugene Esmonde and 825 SQN, the best!
This plane has just been flying over our house in Welling, Kent today :) Managed to get my camera out in time :)
To think this aircraft crippled the mighty Bismarck! Drop the torpedo jock. We got a runner!....
I Stringbag = 5 Bismarcks
@vimy787 thanks!! Didn't know that!
It is a fantastic plane. I hope you got some nice pics or videos! :)
The ‘ol “String bag.” 🇬🇧👍
I have been to the Yeovilton airshow twice and not seen a swordfish fly.
Now imagine landing on a rolling deck that's pitching up and down thirty feet.
Comeon boy's