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By: - 27th July 2015 at 13:25 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
This would be XA 459. One of the previous private owners was killed before being able to renovate the plane. I believe it now belongs to the owner of White Waltham airfield (who is?).
By: - 27th July 2015 at 13:39 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Thanks for the info Newforest :-)
By: - 27th July 2015 at 13:46 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
http://www.thunder-and-lightnings.co.uk/gannet/survivor.php?id=145
Long history here! :D
By: - 27th July 2015 at 15:17 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
I thought this might be about the Errol machine. Gannets have a hard time here!
By: - 27th July 2015 at 16:04 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Indeed they do. But I've always thought the unique wing fold would make an excellent spectacle at museums - if the hydraulics could be rigged up to an auxiliary power supply!
Rob
By: - 27th July 2015 at 17:11 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
They could sync it to Straus waltzes.
By: - 27th July 2015 at 17:16 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Strange: been to WW a number of times but never seen it. WW was a Fairey airfield too I recall?
By: - 27th July 2015 at 17:56 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Not surprising if you look at the photos, Google Earth is your friend! :D
By: - 27th July 2015 at 17:58 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
arrived White Waltham 5-11-06
By: - 27th July 2015 at 19:05 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Not surprising if you look at the photos, Google Earth is your friend! :D
Found it - I wouldn't have known otherwise though!
By: - 27th July 2015 at 19:35 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Out of sight and out of mind in (or around) 51.494083, -0.772412 according to Google.
By: - 27th July 2015 at 20:36 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
I remember seeing this gannet when I was a boy on the Cirencester ring road in someone's garden...I hope one day someone finds the funding it deserves to look after her
By: - 27th July 2015 at 21:21 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
I remember seeing this gannet when I was a boy on the Cirencester ring road in someone's garden...I hope one day someone finds the funding it deserves to look after her
Ditto. Always remember seeing it poking over the wall at the top going round the ring-road towards the transport cafe.
By: - 27th July 2015 at 23:34 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
I remember seeing this gannet when I was a boy on the Cirencester ring road in someone's garden...I hope one day someone finds the funding it deserves to look after her
So that's what happened to it, often wondered where it went. Thanks for clearing that up.
By: - 28th July 2015 at 07:42 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Definitely deserves preservation. There seem to be more of the ASW variant still around than there are of these. The ASW variant was another of the aviation world's ugly ducklings.
By: - 28th July 2015 at 07:51 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Talking of Gannets, do Chatham Naval Dockyard still have one on display ?
Havent been there for a few years.
By: - 28th July 2015 at 08:17 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Not being confused with HMS Gannet? :D
By: - 28th July 2015 at 08:42 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Definitely deserves preservation. There seem to be more of the ASW variant still around than there are of these. The ASW variant was another of the aviation world's ugly ducklings.
I think you mean the AEW version Mike, with the radar housed under the nose?! The one under discussion here is an AS version.
Talking of Gannets, do Chatham Naval Dockyard still have one on display ?
Havent been there for a few years.
The Chatham example, AEW.3 XL500, moved to St Athan several years ago and is happily under restoration to fly :)
Rob
By: - 28th July 2015 at 09:17 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
With regard to the Gannet's time in Cirencester. I was always impressed by the view from the ring road and that one could have an aircraft, a fire engine and a bus, but what you actually did with those things once you had them was less clear.
By: - 28th July 2015 at 10:17 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
I think you mean the AEW version Mike, with the radar housed under the nose?! The one under discussion here is an AS version.
...converted to an ECM6.;O)
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By: Project-9699 - 27th July 2015 at 12:47
Saw this on the BBC News App in Pictures Theme Derlict.[ATTACH=CONFIG]239450[/ATTACH]