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Title: Huh??!!
Post by: EagleEyes on November 19, 2007, 01:46:27 PM
Ok ive never seen this plane before....

Anyone know what it is??

(http://www.modelairplaneinternational.com/full_site/images/news/classic_airframes/ca_gannet_ran_artwork.jpg)
Title: Huh??!!
Post by: SuBWaYCH on November 19, 2007, 01:48:17 PM
My guess: Its a piece of art that has been redone through photoshop.

Regards,
Subway
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Post by: Viking 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
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Post by: Karnak on November 19, 2007, 02:05:52 PM
Ganet I believe.

EDIT:

Yup, Fairey Gannet:

(http://www.thunder-and-lightnings.co.uk/gannet/full/gannet_ad.jpg)

Post-war though.
Title: Huh??!!
Post by: EagleEyes on November 19, 2007, 02:38:39 PM
Post WWII right??
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Post by: Karnak on November 19, 2007, 02:40:23 PM
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Originally posted by EagleEyes
Post WWII right??

Yes, post war.
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Post by: AquaShrimp on November 19, 2007, 02:54:43 PM
Rate of climb is 300 ft/min! What a piece of crap!
Title: Huh??!!
Post by: Wingnutt on November 19, 2007, 03:56:03 PM
somebody located the worlds largest terd and stuck wings on it..
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Post by: Rich46yo 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..


:rofl :rofl :rofl :rofl :rofl
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Post by: Spikes 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..
:rofl :rofl :rofl
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Post by: Greebo 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.
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Post by: Guppy35 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.
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Post by: Meatwad 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
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Post by: Karnak 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.
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Post by: Meatwad on November 19, 2007, 09:27:31 PM
Aw crap you ruined it :D
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Post by: Wolfala on November 20, 2007, 12:43:56 AM
Its kinda like a TBM had sex with, well - a turboprop engine Whats with the British and the hideously ugly designs post WW2? Bombers being the exception? I mean, its as if they were trying to live up to the ugliest design competition and coming home to mom and dad saying "Hey look pa, I got an F!"

Rant off
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Post by: gripen on November 20, 2007, 04:13:05 AM
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Originally posted by Guppy35
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.


Well, sometimes something could not be packed inside:

(http://www.vectorsite.net/avalize_5.jpg)
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Post by: gripen on November 20, 2007, 09:31:09 AM
Ah... the link did not work, let's try this:

(http://www.onpoi.net/ah/pics/users/852_1195572900_avalize_5.jpg)
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Post by: Grendel on November 21, 2007, 11:17:40 AM
http://www.virtualpilots.fi/feature/photoreports/midlandairmuseum/slides/coventry_200604_midlandairmuseum_812.html
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Post by: Wes14 on November 21, 2007, 02:36:44 PM
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Originally posted by Wingnutt
somebody located the worlds largest terd and stuck wings on it..


:rofl :rofl
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Post by: trigger2 on November 24, 2007, 03:28:48 AM
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Originally posted by Karnak
Ganet I believe.

EDIT:

Yup, Fairey Gannet:

(http://www.thunder-and-lightnings.co.uk/gannet/full/gannet_ad.jpg)

Post-war though.


I perfer the Fairey Swordfish myself :]

(http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m56/alecksismeboo/fairey20swordfish.jpg)
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Post by: Karnak on November 24, 2007, 12:21:03 PM
I like the Fairey Firefly:
(http://www.richard-seaman.com/Aircraft/AirShows/Nellis2004/Highlights/FireflyBankingLeft.jpg)

Unfortunately the post war examples with the stepped, wing-root radiators are much prettier than the wartime ones.  Still a good naval attack plane.
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Post by: NovG on November 24, 2007, 12:35:08 PM
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I perfer the Fairey Swordfish myself :]
 


Such a plane crippled the Bismarck, and lead to her sinking though...
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Post by: trigger2 on November 24, 2007, 10:34:21 PM
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Originally posted by NovG
Such a plane crippled the Bismarck, and lead to her sinking though...


The swordfish's didn't do any damage, well, minimal damage.

Only 2 torpedo's hit, one to the armor belt, and one to the rudder, which made it unmanuverable allowing battlecruisers to catch up to it and sink it :]
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Post by: Wes14 on November 24, 2007, 10:51:09 PM
Karnak: Thats an awesome looking plane! :)

And may i ask what did the wartime ones look like?
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Post by: Karnak on November 24, 2007, 11:52:10 PM
Not really seeing any good pictures via google.  Here are a few though:
(http://www.accesswave.ca/~hotwings/fflanding.jpg)
(http://www.dmbcrtaf.thaigov.net/aircraft/Attack/Fairey/010f.jpg)
(http://www.warbirdregistry.org/fireflyregistry/images/firefly-z2033-a.jpg)
(http://fleetairarm.com/pages/news/158.jpg)
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Post by: Karnak on November 24, 2007, 11:56:41 PM
Wiki's entree on the Firefly:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairey_Firefly
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Post by: Wes14 on November 25, 2007, 12:20:42 AM
Thanks Sir,

And your right, Postwar looks a lot better! :aok
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Post by: B3YT on November 26, 2007, 04:18:52 PM
i've stood next to and touched a firefly in Yoevile fleet air arm museum. Such a great aircraft .
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Post by: RoGenT on December 05, 2007, 05:37:15 PM
Any plane that has the name 'fairy' in it no matter how its spelled, i'm definetly not gonna fly it :rofl
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Post by: Karnak on December 05, 2007, 06:17:57 PM
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Originally posted by RoGenT
Any plane that has the name 'fairy' in it no matter how its spelled, i'm definetly not gonna fly it :rofl

It doesn't.  The name is Firefly.  The manufacturer is Fairey.
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Post by: SteveBailey on December 05, 2007, 06:28:30 PM
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Originally posted by Karnak
I like the Fairey Firefly:
(http://www.richard-seaman.com/Aircraft/AirShows/Nellis2004/Highlights/FireflyBankingLeft.jpg)

Unfortunately the post war examples with the stepped, wing-root radiators are much prettier than the wartime ones.  Still a good naval attack plane.



Someone crossbred a spit 16 and a p51D?   ewwwwwwwww!

:huh
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Post by: splitatom on December 05, 2007, 09:03:12 PM
looks like a typhoon that could be on a carier