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Title: What is this plane?
Post by: wasq on May 22, 2006, 05:24:35 PM

(http://static.flickr.com/56/151486892_a2f0ea9481.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/wasq/151486892/)
I saw this plane at Luftwaffenmuseum Gatow and it didn't have any sign so I don't know what it is. Anyone know?

Title: What is this plane?
Post by: Debonair on May 22, 2006, 05:34:19 PM

Fairey gannet

Title: What is this plane?
Post by: wasq on May 22, 2006, 05:38:03 PM

Wow, thanks for the fast reply! Nice plane.

Title: What is this plane?
Post by: Debonair on May 22, 2006, 06:27:57 PM

N/P, thats about as recognizable plane as there is...:noid :noid :noid

Title: What is this plane?
Post by: 68slayr on May 22, 2006, 07:02:48 PM

was it a bomber? and was it ever used?

-68slayr-

Title: What is this plane?
Post by: ded on May 22, 2006, 07:13:09 PM

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Originally posted by 68slayr
was it a bomber? and was it ever used?

-68slayr-

post war ASW aircraft.

Title: What is this plane?
Post by: Furball on May 23, 2006, 01:48:12 AM

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

Title: What is this plane?
Post by: Kev367th on May 23, 2006, 08:29:20 AM

Remeber seeing Gannets when I visited RAF Lossiemouth in my youth.
Ugly then, still smurfy now.

To show you how long ago it was -
There was still 1 Sqn of Buccaneers in existance.
Clue to which one - each one had a Fox's face painted on the intake, and each one had a different expression.

Also at that time -
They still had Shackletons.
Lossiemouth had a Jaguar OCU sqn.

Title: Re: What is this plane?
Post by: joeblogs on May 24, 2006, 11:04:36 AM

It's not a plane. It's a power tool for removing grubs from your yard...

-Blogs

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I saw this plane at Luftwaffenmuseum Gatow and it didn't have any sign so I don't know what it is. Anyone know? [/B]

Title: What is this plane?
Post by: icemaw on May 25, 2006, 01:14:44 PM

man i dont know how that can even sit on the runway without being chained down. cause it is so smurfy that the earth would certainly throw it into space.

Title: What is this plane?
Post by: VooWho on May 28, 2006, 08:24:05 PM

I believe the plane is a Torpedo bomber. Developed like in the 50s or 60s during the cold war era tho.

Title: What is this plane?
Post by: Kev367th on May 28, 2006, 09:07:01 PM

Gannet went into service early/mid 50's as an ASW plane.
Most converted into ECM mid 60's.
Scrapped in mid/late 70's, radar installations going to Shackeltons.

Title: What is this plane?
Post by: Wolfala on May 28, 2006, 10:17:49 PM

I always thought the British built ugly. Now i've seen ugly.

Title: What is this plane?
Post by: mussie on May 29, 2006, 09:06:56 AM

Other than controling torque... Does the use of counter rotating props add anything...

I assume that the fact there are few if any around today means that they are too costly to maintain, unreliable ect.....

EDIT: Perhaps I should have said "lowering torque effects"

Title: What is this plane?
Post by: Angus on May 30, 2006, 08:49:39 AM

Very little torque effects and in a little costly way, more thrust than you'd get with a single propeller.
Google Spitfire 21 and Avro Shackleton ;)