Author Topic: Huh??!! (Read 1754 times)

EagleEyes · « **on:** November 19, 2007, 01:46:27 PM »

Ok ive never seen this plane before....

Anyone know what it is??

SuBWaYCH · « **Reply #1 on:** November 19, 2007, 01:48:17 PM »

My guess: Its a piece of art that has been redone through photoshop.

Regards,
Subway

Viking · « **Reply #2 on:** November 19, 2007, 01:57:30 PM »

It's a Fairey Gannet. The ugliest plane I've ever seen.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairey_Gannet

Karnak · « **Reply #3 on:** November 19, 2007, 02:05:52 PM »

Ganet I believe.

EDIT:

Yup, Fairey Gannet:

Post-war though.

EagleEyes · « **Reply #4 on:** November 19, 2007, 02:38:39 PM »

Post WWII right??

Karnak · « **Reply #5 on:** November 19, 2007, 02:40:23 PM »

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Originally posted by EagleEyes
Post WWII right??

Yes, post war.

AquaShrimp · « **Reply #6 on:** November 19, 2007, 02:54:43 PM »

Rate of climb is 300 ft/min! What a piece of crap!

Wingnutt · « **Reply #7 on:** November 19, 2007, 03:56:03 PM »

somebody located the worlds largest terd and stuck wings on it..

Rich46yo · « **Reply #8 on:** November 19, 2007, 04:09:53 PM »

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Originally posted by Wingnutt
somebody located the worlds largest terd and stuck wings on it..

Spikes · « **Reply #9 on:** November 19, 2007, 04:15:41 PM »

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Originally posted by Wingnutt
somebody located the worlds largest terd and stuck wings on it..

Greebo · « **Reply #10 on:** November 19, 2007, 04:51:01 PM »

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Originally posted by AquaShrimp
Rate of climb is 300 ft/min! What a piece of crap!

That website also gives the rate of climb as 11.2 m/s which works out to 2184 ft/min. That would seem a more realistic figure to me. I'm guessing the 310 ft/min is a mistake.

Guppy35 · « **Reply #11 on:** November 19, 2007, 05:10:18 PM »

Keep in mind that's a turbo-prop aircraft,essentially meaning it's a jet engine turning that prop.

It was built to track subs. In essensce it's much like a TBF was earlier when they put radar pods on them postwar for the same job. Loiter, go slow, track subs.

Wasn't a beauty contest so much as being practical about what the job was and what needed to get packed inside the plane to get it done.

Meatwad · « **Reply #12 on:** November 19, 2007, 09:00:40 PM »

Its an aircraft in the Royal Navy and it was named a Fairey

For some reason, that doesnt surprise me one bit

Karnak · « **Reply #13 on:** November 19, 2007, 09:11:35 PM »

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Originally posted by Meatwad
Its an aircraft in the Royal Navy and it was named a Fairey

For some reason, that doesnt surprise me one bit

The company that built it was Fairey. The aircraft was the Gannet.

Meatwad · « **Reply #14 on:** November 19, 2007, 09:27:31 PM »

Aw crap you ruined it