Use code dwaynes at the link below to get an exclusive 60% off an annual Incogni plan: incogni.com/dwaynes

@therealrobertbirchall

9 күн бұрын

Stop hiding ads in the videos. What's the point in me paying for KZread premium if I have to put up wit ads anyway?

I was there at the scrapping of the last Gannets of B flight 849 Sqdn Royal Navy at RAF Lossiemouth. I was the Corporal Storeman tasked with overseeing all the paperwork & weighing of the scrap which was reduced to metal ingots for transportation. A really sad day as I used to love watching them fly, a lovely aircraft

@steveclark5357

8 күн бұрын

respect

The RAN have one in their naval museum and it's my wife's favourite. I love them, a perfect example of.. who cares how it looks, it works.

@justintrett9663

Ай бұрын

I’m feel the same as you and your wife.

I have always found this a significantly practical and attractive aircraft. Love it.

@jtjames79

15 күн бұрын

Unconventionally attractive. Every single bit of the plane is beautiful. You put it all together and you got a Steve Buscemi.

@steveclark5357

8 күн бұрын

I appreciate the fairey gannet , she was a real tough plane

The engine inlet was a single casting which included the complex gearbox that allowed 2 A S Mamba gas turbines to drive the co-axial airscrews together, or separately (so that either turbine could be shut down in flight). The boxing for this sand casting was over 6 feet high!

I've actually always loved how these looked, and I'm not even British. There's just something unique and purely function-over-form about then that makes them look good to me.

I bet they first tried to modify a double decker bus into an airplane. That would explain the large surfaces covered with red paint.

@aerotube7291

13 күн бұрын

Haha yeah, interesting plane

@AishaShaw-cl6wc

10 күн бұрын

Good point.

@aerotube7291

9 күн бұрын

@@AishaShaw-cl6wc impressive amount of people and kit onboard. Bet it was hi-tech as for the era!

The Falklands War shows a classic case of HMG spending a pound to save a penny. Saving the cost of 3 or 4 AEW Gannets cost 5 ships plus several others damaged. Hermes had carried Gannets as part of its wing just a few years previously and was capable of deploying them again. But the bean counters said "We've got helicopters so why should we spend the money to put the Gannets back in the air?" - Big mistake.

@aerotube7291

9 күн бұрын

They spent a fortune hiring ex RAF short Belfast's I think in the same war.

fun fact, in the 1980s an Indonesian gannet pilot was selected to be one of the final four of the future astronauts that was planned to launch with the space shuttle in 1987. but the program was cancelled after the Challenger incident.

The Gannet isn’t “unattractive”, it’s steampunk funky.

@andyronayne7947

12 күн бұрын

I agree!

@capt_benry593

11 күн бұрын

Steamfunky

@wildolan

10 күн бұрын

it's gorgeous. and even prettier in real life!!

@mikemulligan5731

10 күн бұрын

@@wildolan I can only imagine..

@Chad-xh8zs

2 күн бұрын

i actually like it more than the "attractive" hornet

There was one of these parked up outside a technical college in North Wales for decades. I used to pass it everyday. It was in pretty poor condition but occasionally they'd start it up and run it for a while. It was a huge (and loud) machine - loved it.

Props (multiple) to you for making this video.

@bobroberts6155

21 күн бұрын

Turbo props?

@terrystevens5261

16 күн бұрын

@@bobroberts6155 Yes, Mambas.

One never says "THE" HMS Eagle etc, just HMS Eagle. you got it correct later when you refered to a HMAS vessel though. Good video.

@COIcultist

11 күн бұрын

That and there isn't a British Navy, it's the Royal Navy!

When you get to 12:05 into the video and see the spread of photos, you'll notice the Gannet on the top left has the letter 'V' on the tail (HMS Victorious) and the number 3 on the forward fuselage. I have a photo of that same aircraft taxiing after landing at RAF Luqa in Malta in 1966. I got into a lot of trouble because I was sixteen years old and had gone to work with my father, who was on duty in the control tower. He had allowed me to accompany the fellow driving the 'Follow Me' Land Rover but hadn't counted on me jumping out in the middle of the airfield taking photos. The Gannet pilot saw me and did a 'folding wings' demonstration for me as he taxied past. Met him later in the control tower. I remember him being soaked in sweat. Must be hot in those things.

I'm weird, but I think it's cool looking.

I'm sure I read somewhere the Gannet had a really slow landing speed. Something like 70mph ? They could be rebuilt and used without traps.

Had these on board EAGLE..great aircraft....Did the job.On landing on board they just cruised in solidly.

I think it looks cool. The twin propellers, the thick body, the curved wings. It's like a corsair, a wildcat and a wyvern got frisky together

@billfarley9167

13 күн бұрын

Not even close dude.

@joaogomes9405

13 күн бұрын

@@billfarley9167 that's your opinion dude.

Practicality over Beauty

Brings back fond memories of HMS Hermes which had one or two AEW Gannets and a mail delivery unit also (1967 to 1969).

I saw this type of aircraft at the Pima Air & Space Museum in Tucson AZ, USA. It was so cute. I was fascinated by it.

@melangellatc1718

13 күн бұрын

The Pima Air & Space Museum is a nice place to visit. Prepare to get toasty... desert and all.

11:25 With its wings folded it looks just like Private Baldrick doing his Sopwith Camel impersonation. 🤣🤣

Who cares how it looked, it fulfilled it's function.

I love it. Beautiful.

I genuinely find it beautiful.

A kind of flying yellow submarine to hunt submarines! Good point!

This aircraft is awesome built like a tank !!!!

Legendary test,pilot Peter twiss,who broke the 1000mph barrier in the unique fairey delta,did loads of test flying on the gannet

Its look like the search radar was the big American APS-20.

I remember as a youngster, camping in S.Wales not far from RNAS Brawdy. There were Gannets flying around all day long.

Love the Gannet, such a cool aircraft.

Why name a Naval aircraft after a bird known for hurtling into the sea at a high velocity? Seems like tempting fate to me. Joking aside, I have always liked the shape of the Gannet.

@belperflyer7419

9 күн бұрын

Indeed. I used to sail in the Clyde estuary and loved watching the gannets in their headlong dives. Beautiful and large seabirds. I even landed on Ailsa Craig once and a lighthouse keeper took me up to the gannet colony - very noisy (and noisome :) )

Absolutely, the Hornet was beautiful, building on the mosquito concept, visually, anyway. In its own right, it was a stunner.

I remember these being in the hangar when I went through training at HMS Daedelaus back in the 80’s as well as lots of Wessex helicopters

An aircraft engineers nightmare for sure...can't imagine anything being worse....the amount of maintenance on that thing must have been astronomical...

Thank you for this. I always liked the Gannet but was it necessary to use some shots of American aeroplanes and sailors when referring to British naval aviation?

I've always loved these planes I don't know what's ugly about them I personally think their really cool looking...

I was in the Naval Section of the school's CCF back in the early 50s and we visited RNAS Stretton on a couple of occasions. The Gannet was still in service and I loved it! True, it's ugly in a way but perhaps I have a soft spot for ugly aeroplanes that seem to be purposeful (Westland Lysanders were another favourite). The Wyverns were also in service at the time and I admired them, too. You have to allow for schoolboy tastes :) I build and fly RC models now and I'd build a Gannet if there was kit - I'm not clever enough to design my own.

There's a Fairey Gannet at the entrance to the Dumfries aviation museum in South West Scotland - I drive past it quite often.

I first noticed this airplane a few years ago and I must admit the first impression is not the one to last, because it was quite ugly. As ugly as it makes it so unique and beautiful in its own way. I love it.

Always good stuff.

Very nice video on this rare aircraft all credit to you

I actually think it looks cool.

Pretty cool looking plane to me.

I hear that the aircraft at the beginning is being inspected by the Royal Navy Historic Flight (or whatever they call themselves now!) With a view to bringing it home

Great film, minor quibble, it’s the “Royal Navy” not “British”

@jaex9617

12 күн бұрын

Great comment, minor quibble. It's a "video," not a "film."

@terrystevens5261

12 күн бұрын

@@jaex9617 Yes, a video of maily film material. but i won't quibble.

On first glance I saw "fairly unattractive, lethal, fierce" and thought it was another F-35 video.

Cool video

A Beast !!

Very interesting video. On the subject of looks, Fairey had experience building ugly aircraft. Check out the Fairey Barracuda.

Ugly birds are loyal, dependable, and grateful.

Any Cessna is worthy to be called disgusting looking plane thousand times before this one.

All birds are beautiful you just don't know what you're looking at

I kind a like the looks.

It was a nuclear weapon carrier so very powerful. Very clever engineering.

If the Ministry hadnt pensioned them off 10 mins before Falklands, we would have had an air defence over the Fleet. They'll circle all day on a gallon of AVGAS.

This is great. HMS Illustrious - no 'the' ('the His/Her Majesty's Ship') 'aitch emm ess' - not 'haitch' All best!

They commissioned a propellor plane in case the jets didn't work.

Someone at Fairey should have been brave enough to say to leadership 'Oh Honey, what you doin' ? '

clean in bomber form i think it is a good looking plane

Love it reminds me Ducktales

Double Mamba.

Looks like a British creation similar in functionality to the “Skyraider” that served in the post WWII era.

It's almost as if aircraft designers of propeller-driven aeroplanes forgot all they had learned during the second world war. Very odd.

In your video featuring the Fairey Gannet you make several references to the "British Navy" - this is not only incorrect but irritating. It's the Royal Navy - please correct this inaccuracy.

Saying "the HMS......" is just wrong. What you are effectively saying is, "The His Majesty's Ship....."

So why have we never heard of it?

@paulfeaheny3055

9 күн бұрын

What rock have you been hiding under??????❤

Not sure who the British navy is, the Royal Navy however......

This aircraft was function over form But it worked really well. How about two engines in line so it flies just as well one one. The French copied it with a prettier plane but less capable.

Did it fly, did it do the job? If the answer is yes, then what is the problem?

Please, it's HMS Eagle or the Eagle never the HMS Eagle.

@Anmeteor9663

Ай бұрын

No one cares. Get a life.

@jimtaylor294

Ай бұрын

^ Only you don't care. Get a life 😝 .

@AlfieDoug

Ай бұрын

​@@jimtaylor294 I don't care for the grammar police either you muppet, losers hanging around in youtube looking for minor things to criticise need to get a life.

@billfarley9167

13 күн бұрын

You sound like another anal Englishman. Chill dude.

@jamsstar2010

4 күн бұрын

Yeah don't care Who said anyway?

I'm pretty sure there's a kitchen sink in there, somewhere! Just saying ?

Never ever say "The HMS --------", it is simply HMS, which stands for His/Her Majesty's Ship, hence putting 'the' in front of it makes no sense. Unfortunately this obvious error is common, presumably because people are ignorant of the proper title.

What difference do aesthetic qualities make to a military plane ? I've watched a few Gannet videos and they always kick-off with an apology for how 'ugly' it looks. It's the priority that's given to it and the grating clichés . It just seems pretty/very stupid to me.

So ugly that it was banished out to sea.

From Fairey Swordfish also from the same stable, so effective against the Nazi German and Italian Fascist navies

There were a lot of factual errors in this. The Seaking AEW 2 was introduced in 1982 with a highly effective and advanced radar and was used right up until the Merlin replaced it. The installation of the Searchwater radar looked odd, but it was innovative and worked very well as was proven by its longevity. Why, oh why do people, such as this narrator, keep referring to Royal Navy ships as 'the' HMS Whatever? HMS is an abbreviation - for His Majesty's Ship, so to say 'the His Majesty's Ship' makes no grammatical sense. So please just call it 'HMS Ark Royal' or drop the HMS bit and simply call it 'the Ark Royal'. Additionally, the plural of aircraft, is aircraft - not aircrafts. This is another disturbing trend of corrupting the English language.

Why would the Brits have to send planes to the U.S. to test propellers?

@terrystevens5261

16 күн бұрын

I must have missed that bit. i did however hear him say they sent a plane to Dowtys for propeller testing, they are between Cheltenham and Gloucester in the UK.

'Haytch' EM ESS? What's the matter with you?

I don't like Gannets. They wet their nests. That is why I prefer the expurgated version of Olsen's "Standard Book Of British Birds"

@clickbaitcharlie2329

Ай бұрын

Expurgated...like, ejected from the nesting material?.

@throwabrick

Ай бұрын

@@clickbaitcharlie2329 It's a Monty Python sketch about a very fussy customer in a book shop.

@clickbaitcharlie2329

28 күн бұрын

@@throwabrick should have known, "albatross", pining for the fjords?..

Form is following function and doesn´t care about aesthetics.

Your aesthetic judgment is unnecessary. I like the oddball aircraft though. Keep on trying.

I believe the first plane shown was the De Haviland Mosquito? Not Hornet.

when ugly and homely had a child

Ugly as the french carrier aircraft "Alizé" (anti submarine).

Why oh why do you insist on saying "haitch", when the letter "H" is properly pronounced "aitch"?

@inkycat191

Ай бұрын

Because people like me don’t remember that English makes absolutely no fucking sense and mispronounce things

@neiloflongbeck5705

Ай бұрын

Because most English is based on Old French.

@Anmeteor9663

Ай бұрын

No one cares. Get a life.

@jimtaylor294

Ай бұрын

^×2 Not really. English has a lot of languages to thank, while French has mostly pig Latin as its basis.

Wait, the Firefly was a fight? Nah, that heavy piece of shit was actually a fighter… That large flying box of a plane was a god for saken fighter plane…

Another one with a fake - and American accented - AI talk-over.

"Aeroplanes" airplanes is American English, how embarrassing.

Interesting info on a plane I’d never heard of. Thanks 🫡

It’s a pilots dream for a safe and reliable aircraft!!!!

To be fair, the RN has had many uglier aircraft.

@julianmartin8356

7 күн бұрын

The sea vixen being one of them!