Classic British Aircraft - Fairey Gannet
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- Опубликовано: 24 авг 2024
- The Fairey Gannet was an anti-submarine warfare aircraft designed for use by the Royal Navy. It first flew in 1949 and entered service with the Fleet Air Arm in 1953. Initially used as a carrier borne anti-submarine and strike aircraft, it was able to find submerged submarines and attack them. Later versions were used as AEW (airborne early warning) aircraft, carrying a radar scanner in a radome beneath the aircraft. It's rugged air frame enabled it to remain in service until the late 1970s.
OH, for the drone of those engines once they were in the air. I will always remember that sound as they flew over Nowra in New South Wales Australia, the home of Australia's Fleet Air Arm.
Is the Gannet in the museum still flyable?
@@donotwantahandle1111 Not to my knowledge. The "Hughy" and the Tracker from the Museum are now flown from HARS at Albion Park.
"A gentleman's aircraft" - only an Englishman would come out with a description like that
:)
What an amazing feat of engineering the Gannet was!
She IS a beauty in her own right and we miss them.
A beautiful example of aeronautical innovation! The ability to cruise on one engine, swapping them around was ingenious! I love the Gannet!!👍🏽🇺🇸
Worked on these as a trainee at HMS Daedalus back in the 80’s
A wonderful aircraft flew by wonderful men. Peter Twist was an enigmatic flyer who was highly influential in the development of post war aircraft in the UK and especially this marvellous example of British engineering - RIP Sir!
Actually Peter TWISS, the first man past 1000mph in his book "Faster Than The Sun".
Badly missed during the Falklands War in it's AEW role. If these had been flying a CAP the UK's losses would have dropped to zero!
Great documentary of a absolutely amazing aircraft that served British Navy. Congrats from Portugal 👍🇵🇹
I seem to recall that they liked to play a trick on the crowds as air shows: they would come in low and slow, and then shut down one engine. There were always gasps when the crowd saw the propeller stop!
This reminds me of my childhood again, tuning into Discovery Wings and watching Classic British Aircraft with Dad. Oh I miss those days!
A wonderful aircraft. As mad about aeroplanes at 80 as I was at 10 yo, the Gannet was always a favourite. Not too many people realised it was a twin-engined machine.
At an air show years ago, I was surprised to have a retired FAA pilot tell us they used to land at almost full throttle - just in case they were waved off.
Fantastic Aircraft👏
When Britain designed and manufactured their own aircraft.
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Before American Presidents told UK Prime Ministers to jump - and those PMs simply asked how high.
Must have been lovely to fly. The two engines must have given many a pilot a safe feeling. I think she is pretty. Versatile.
There is a Gannet at the Dumfries and Galloway Aviation Museum. It's in fair condition, but parked outside. They have a double Mamba also, in their engine collection in the old watch office.
I went to one of the Biggin Hill airshows around 1968 as a young sprog and recall the commentator saying that if we smile, the Gannet can pick up gold fillings😄
Thank You. As a 1960s schoolboy I remember looking these aircraft up and watching clips of them occasionally on the television. My Older cousin , John Bartlett, was I believe the 3rd crew member on a Fairey Gannet , although I cannot remember on which aircraft carrier he served in. I was taken with its twin propeller arrangement, its robustness and its ability to do what it was designed for. An impressive aircraft.
I’d never heard of the Gannet before i joined the Navy, you can imagine as a 17 year old I was quite impressed! I did fly in the Gannet but in a Mk 4/5 not in the Mk 3 and unfortunately i never got to do a cat shot 😔 now that would have been awesome!
I don't know why it is often referred to as an ugly aircraft - to me, it looks like a graceful fish gliding through the water.
Form follows function and this airplane was excellent for what it was designed, like an A-10 Warthog, joining tne ranks of aircraft called "ugly" by some, but so, so beautiful at fullfilling the ir jobs and missions. Great plane! Thank you for the excellent video!
Super film, I remember making an Airfix model Gannet more than 50 years ago. Thank you for posting this.
Airfix have new one coming out next month.
Absolutely love this series...thanks for sharing these gems..😊 kind regards Dave
Thanks Dave, very much appreciated. It was a real labour of love for those of us that worked on it all those years ago. Such a privilege to have met all those remarkable people.
The Royal Australian Navy operated the Gannet also, probably longer than the RN. I remember seeing one at the Camden Air Museum in the 1970's. It was just enormous looking to me as a boy.
It looks like a Westland Wyvern and a Grumman TBF/TBM Avenger had a baby.
@m4sherman340 - maybe, but so what? Military equipment doesn't have to look pretty - just do its job whilst keeping a highly trained crew alive.
Unlike the M4 Sherman - which looks like the illegitimate offspring of a tractor and hi-rise building - and was known to the Germans as the 'Tommy Cooker'.
@@jackx4311Well then, Mrs. Wyvern and Mr. Avenger had a BEAUTIFUL baby.
Is Peter Twist a relative of Oliver?!? The Dickens, you say! I already knew that the Gannet was a great plane; now I know that this series, which I just discovered, on great British planes is a great series!! Thank you!!
Never new they routinely feathered one engine when cruising
Oh yes, saved engine life and increased endurance immensely
My friends uncle was a part of the design team.
I'm just waiting for the large scale AIRFIX model to come out shortly...
My engineering teacher in the RAF said he once saw a pilot on final approach fold his wings, sadly.....
What do u mean?
Serious??? How can a pilot on final approach fold his wings??
@@envitech02 dude I'm wondering the same thing wth
Thought the wings could only fold when weight was on the undercarriage.
@@envitech02 Yes, it did happen. When first introduced there was no interlock to prevent it which was rectified very quickly. Somewhere in my references I have a copy of the (an?) accident report. Sometimes we forget how advanced these aircraft were in their day and the very real perceived threat they were built to face. Sadly mistakes happened and people died...more than one naval pilot drowned in the cockpit of a ditched aircraft but was unable to escape, sometimes within feet of safety.
Spent most of a year on development of the Armstrong Siddeley Double Mamba in 1955. Have great affection for the Fairey Gannet. Love the unique sound from the 1500rpm conta-rotating props.
Cool looking British aircraft from the Cold War era. Good video. 👍. Hello from Buckeye, Arizona USA 🌵.
It appears to have a more extensive exhaust system than most planes!
I don't know why but the British love to put a coal hole on their aircraft for the Observer. The Canberra had one the sea Vixen had one and I think you could call that thing in the back of the Gannett a Coal hole. The bastard's probably didn't even have a ejection seat because it would be an NCO in there.
By the way, that is the first aircraft I have ever seen with a scrotum.
The coal hole on a Sea Vixen as well.
The young fella said contra rotating props but someone earlier stated that the props both spun the same way!!
What a cracking plane!
My late father was a Fleet Chief REA and loved the Gannet, worked on them on and off carriers.
That wing engineering is amazing!
Weird and wonderful plane. All the old airframes are dwindling to extinction.
The first time I found out about this aircraft was in the documentary "Sailor" about the old Ark Royal. I didn't know the Gannet had the compartment in the back for radar, or the bomb carrying capability. I think all fixed wing aircraft over the ocean should have two engines like the Gannet, F-18, Hawkeye, etc.
I love it, I like odd airplanes.
I have this 1/72 old plastic Scale Model on my shelf 😎
1st time ive ever seen or heard of this plane- is a Beautiful plane in its own way 🙂 - very interesting plane and id like to see more of it - maybe some day it will show up at an air show MAYBE
What an amazing plane! Thanks for your video introducing it to me in 2023!
Glad you liked it! There is an indescribable something about the Gannet . Its a kind of beauty and the beast all rolled into one.
"Would you like to see Britannia rule again. My Friend?"
Yes. Yes I would.
I'm not even British, yet here I am feeling nostaglic watching this.
One of the coolest planes ever
That is fantastic thanks!. what a monster... its a beauty.
That's got to be Harry Enfield reading the narrative
Beautiful aircraft
The Flying Museum at Moorabbin Airport in S/E Melbourne has an ex -RAN one sitting outside. Gawd! What a fright of an aircraft to come across with it's wing's folded up! It's huge, it's ugly and it has looks that only a Mother could love, but back in the day it was a real danger to submarines around Australian waters and to anyone else who wasn't supposed to be in our waters.
Mark from Melbourne Australia
went to the air museum with my son a couple of months ago "MARK" it is not beautiful as you say but i still find it a nice piece of aviation EYE CANDY lol
Beautiful and interesting aircraft.
Our navy air wing use this aircraft in 1958 until midle 70 and now retired . TNI AL or indonesian navy air wing
The Gannet parked up next to the Berkshire Air Museum Car Park is on what is left of one of the former Miles works and airfield. The wings are folded and it looks like it might almost start flapping them to get into the air. Maybe that's because it is close to a Country Park featuring lakes and waterfowl. Some unlikely looking birds launch into the air from there too.
That Gannet is a training version (T5 ). Because of the layout, the occupant of the second cockpit needed a visual aid to see forward (presumably the instructor). I remember it being a large mirror mounted overhead at 45 degrees - simple but one assumes effective.
I think the first UK Biro (literally Biro) factory was once based there at the same time. Back in the day "Biros' were precision instruments and it was thought consistent with the skills of an aviation engineer.
To me it represents British aviation technology, My father helped build a far less successful machine, the Blue Steel rocket so I was taken many years to Farnborough Air Show and saw many wonderful British planes.
Loved the Gannet as much as the Buccs & Phantoms ... Flight Deck Party (two drafts 6.5 years on deck) HMS Ark Royal R09
I first saw this aircraft at the Yorkshire Air museum, I'd never heard of it before and thought it looked like a fat relic, too big for the wings. After looking into it, wow, what an aircraft. Thanks for the video.
Many thanks. Glad you enjoyed it.
I was in the Royal Navy FAA 11:42 from 1966 to 1981, i worked on Gannet Mk 3’s on 849 Squadron and was on HMS Hermes on A flight, good times 😄
I was on 849 at Brawdy 1969 as an armourer then looked B flight cabs as flight deck party Ark Royal
@@philreading3836 it’s a small world! Maybe we did know each other🤔
In January 1957 I was a patient in RNH Hasler. The ward was mostly occupied by those wounded/injured in Operation Musketeer (Suez 1956). A Naval Airman was brought in, he had been blown into the props of a Gannet. Extreme injuries, immense pain. The poor bugger kept the ward awake with his groans and screams. I was discharged a few days later so I don't know if he lived (or wanted to).
@@styx14045 That sounds gruesome, i can’t even begin to imagine the injuries he suffered 😱
Some SERIOUS horsepower.
What an empress, Would love to go for a hop in one, but Airfix is the only way I will get to see a Gannet
You can use a Gannet in a couple different video games.
Really a wonderful channel!!! Keep it up!
Thank you, thats very kind. Early days but long term we hope to be making new material. There might be a few odd things turning up over the next few weeks. So lovely to see so many like minded people out there.
It looks so ungainly like it shouldn't be able to fly, I think its a gorgeous aircraft !
we had a very similar aircraft in france it was called the Breguet Br.1050 Alizé , must have been inspired by such a great plane !
Fairey Gannet: 'The Postman'--always delivered!
Fantastic and innovative. I do have a soft spot for it and The A1 Sky raider a bit more of the later because I was fortunate to go flying in the A1 .best $300 I ever spent. They do love the fuel . My buddy went in a Steadman WWI $175 I got a half hour he go a hour.. we both had equal fun. The Carnival of the Air show. The winning prize is the joy ride.😁
The Narrator was Harry Enfield, would you believe?
So it is! Kept expecting him to burst out with one of his catchphrases. Only me! Wonder if he's a aviation fan or it was just another job for him?
There’s also a Gannet at Melbourne’s Moorabbin Airport Museum; not sure if it still contains engines.
👍Thanks for posting these excerpts.
Thanks Steve. Glad you enjoyed them. Will post a few more in the weeks to come.
Great performer, the Gannet, if you saw a few carrier landings and take offs you'ld never think of her as an ugly ducking!
Ive stood next to that ugly bloody thing at duxford and its absolutely colossal??,its like standing next to a ww2 twin engined medium bomber...only a face a mother would love...
I'm honestly surprised Gaijin Entertainment did not add the Gannet to War Thunder as a carrier-based bomber.
Lossiemouth had been handed over to the RAF but still had 849 Navy squadron based there with the Fairy Gannet, they operated from the other side of the airfield from us with the Jaguar, but they passed us regularly on the taxiway. it was a big aircraft. They also called an emergency state two on a regular basis, declaring smoke in the cockpit, we would then stand out on the line and watch them land, I do not ever remember any real problems, they all landed safely,
Who narrated this? Sounds like Harry Enfield!
Anyway, I remember one of these being parked up at RAF Bruggen for a while, and when it finally left, I just happened to be there to watch it depart.
By far and away the loudest aircraft I have ever seen take off, and that includes the Vulcan and Concord!
It certainly was Harry Enfield. I first watched this on one of the documentary channels on Sky TV.
@@alanward9521 ah! Thanks! 😁👍
There was oneof these at the old Errol airport near Dundee, Scotland . Dont know if its still there but might be worth a look ?
I was up that way 4 or 5 years ago and it was still there then. Just looked on Google Earth and you can still see it, but I don't know how old the GE image is ?
Vă respect cu înalt respect domnule. Comandor.
I always liked this plane (I happen to like rugged looking planes) but I didn't know about the double engine.
Interesting, never heard of or seen this plane
XA460 currently nearing completion of restoration (non flying) at Ulster Aviation Society collection at Long Kesh near Lisburn
Love British aircraft from this era, it’s all very Dan Dare 😁
Armstrong Snidely engines with alloy and titanium parts the 1960s Fairey Gannet the best in the class.
That is fantastic thanks!
"A sturdy aircraft" but he pulled the wings off in a G-manoeuvre LOL
Great channel but it would be nice to know what year the content was filmed.
As the saying goes, "If it's ugly, it's Russian. If it's weird, it's French. If it's ugly and weird, it's British".
The Gannet is very British.
Excellent, as usual. Is the narrator Harry Enfield?
Many thanks and yes it is
"The expurgated version." "The one without the Gannet." "I don't like the gannet. They wet their nests!"
There's a Gannet in Jakarta. It may have a working engine, or at least one you can get running.
Is that Harry Enfield narrating?
The Gannet was ugly but it was a very effective aircraft for hunting submarines, long loiter time and good weapons load, nothing really to compare it to. Very nice seeing Peter Twist who flew the Fairey Delta 2 at Mach 2.09 and took the World Air Speed Record at 1,132 mph in March 1956.
the aircraft design is great but in term of economics and numbers, its better to have 2 different aircrafts with single engine than 1 aircraft with 2 engine, cuz it doesn't seem to give astronomical advantage to have 2 propeller engines with blades standing one after another, difference is negligible.
Always liked the black livery of the COD version.
Strange aircraft design for sure
Great vid. Pretty sure twin gas turbines would sound pretty different to all the dubbed sound though!
Aeronave incrível! Muito interessante! 🌟
the British navalized carrier borne Fairey Gannet AS.1 maritime multi role ASW fighter could have done with a proper internal gun . . . a modified compact 25 MM GAU-12/U three-barrel rotary cannon built into the forward starboard side lower fuselage section of the Gannet AS.1 . . . rate of fire of the GAU-12/U will have to be calibrated in sync with rotation of the front propellers, so as not to damage the props when firing . . . a stretched variant of the carrier borne Fairey Gannet AS.1 maritime multi role ASW fighter would have served the ASW role better than the existing variant . . . a stretched variant would incorporate a larger internal bomb bay, big enough to fit 2 MU90 lightweight guided torpedo & three AGM-84J Harpoon (Block XII) active radar homing GPS guided anti-ship missiles . . . the carrier borne Fairey Gannet AS.1 maritime multi role ASW fighter can still be used in it's ASW role, albeit with a host of modifications & upgrades . . .
Or go through a hollow prop hub, the motors are already located below the thrust centerline.
Syncing through two props?!? 😳
Narrated by.... Harry Enfield?
It is a shame that the Fairey Gannet had too short a career in the RN, MFB and in the Royal Navy in Australia. Fairey Gannet should be in exstem upgraded Fairey Gannet of 2023 edition. A very well thought out aircraft for the Navy. Not awake but deadlit if Fairey Gannet. I have a relative who flew the Fairey Gannet in the MFB in Germany, he then became a rear admiral in the MFB.
Good looking plane. Wonder why the 2nd observer had to sit backwards?
If he sat looking forward his field of view would be blocked by the wing...?
@@jackaubrey8614Yeah, that and maybe getting some of the weight off the tail for weight and balance and helping the handling.
Please tell me that wasn't Harry Enfield narrating!
Why bother with the double-folding wing? What is wrong with the side-folding wing so successfully used on the Grumman Wildcat, Hawkeye, et al??
The wingspan/fuselage length ratio wouldn't have allowed that type of fold.
Kind of obscure engine solution
"it was a very sturdy aircraft"
Next sentence..
"The 2 outer sections of wing fell off"
...and made it back to a carrier landing. 😁😁
@SiPhillipson - Typical of a snarky little chunt like you to carefully omit the explanation of WHY that happened. Do the world a favour - F O A D.
What a beautiful, ugly aircraft
One of the ugliest aircraft ever made. Love it.
funniest thing i've ever heard about gannets: "first aircraft built with its own scrotum..." 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Super echipat.
Looks heavy