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Unpublished Fleet Air Arm photographs.

Post by Pensioner » Tue Aug 18, 2009 1:55 pm

I have got to know an old guy who served on HMS Eagle just after the end of WW11 and he has 30 or 40 photographs of the ship and the aircraft which flew off it.

It was a dangerous time being a pilot in the postwar Navy as he told me the Eagle lost 4 aircraft in one day. Two sea Hornets collided over the Med with no survivors and a couple of the early jets that the navy used crashed on landing.

I have started to scan the photos and I will post them on this site.

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Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Tue Aug 18, 2009 2:00 pm

Pen, I'd love to add them to Hyperwar. Image
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Post by Pensioner » Tue Aug 18, 2009 2:21 pm

Gawdzilla wrote:Pen, I'd love to add them to Hyperwar. Image
I will ask him mate but I don’t think there will be any problems. If he gives me permission I will send you them at full resolution.

Here another one, the undercarriage collapsed when he came in a bit steep.

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Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Tue Aug 18, 2009 2:33 pm

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Gawdzilla wrote:Pen, I'd love to add them to Hyperwar. Image
I will ask him mate but I don’t think there will be any problems. If he gives me permission I will send you them at full resolution.

Here another one, the undercarriage collapsed when he came in a bit steep.

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The more detail he or you can add to the pix, the better. A text file referring to the image will be fine. He will get full credit for providing the pix, of course. :tup:
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Post by klr » Tue Aug 18, 2009 2:41 pm

Pensioner wrote:I have got to know an old guy who served on HMS Eagle just after the end of WW11 and he has 30 or 40 photographs of the ship and the aircraft which flew off it.

It was a dangerous time being a pilot in the postwar Navy as he told me the Eagle lost 4 aircraft in one day. Two sea Hornets collided over the Med with no survivors and a couple of the early jets that the navy used crashed on landing.

I have started to scan the photos and I will post them on this site.

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Post by Xamonas Chegwé » Tue Aug 18, 2009 3:08 pm

Cool pix Pen! :tup:
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Post by Pensioner » Tue Aug 18, 2009 3:11 pm

The only Jet that had coffman starter. The Sea Hawk.

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Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Tue Aug 18, 2009 3:12 pm

Pensioner wrote:The only Jet that had coffman starter. The Sea Hawk.

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They used coal-fired APUs? :shock:
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Post by klr » Tue Aug 18, 2009 3:14 pm

Health and Safety might have a problem with that nowadays.

Any pics of the Wyvern? :biggrin:
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Post by Pensioner » Tue Aug 18, 2009 3:28 pm

Flight of the Phoenix. Of course you yanks turned a good film into crap when you did the remake.
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Post by Pensioner » Tue Aug 18, 2009 3:53 pm

I need to go and have close look at all his photos, I do think he has hundreds of photographs and what I do not want is the family when he is no longer with us is just go and dump them.


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Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Tue Aug 18, 2009 3:57 pm

Pensioner wrote:I need to go and have close look at all his photos, I do think he has hundreds of photographs and what I do not want is the family when he is no longer with us is just go and dump them.


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If you loan them to me I'll scan and return them. Plus build a website to house them. :food: If you want to scan them and send them along that's fine too.
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Re: Unpublished Fleet Air Arm photographs.

Post by Pensioner » Wed Aug 19, 2009 7:54 am

Sea Hawk 109 misses the arrester wire and crashes into the safety barrier. The aircraft is stripped and then thrown over the side.

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Re: Unpublished Fleet Air Arm photographs.

Post by Feck » Wed Aug 19, 2009 8:37 am

Moar :clap:
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