Barry Leeming's Royal Navy FAA images

Sea Vampire T.22 survives in Australia somewhere i think.!

Lovely pics, and as James says the baling out practice is unusual to see.

Rob

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fantastic pictures. Most grateful for sharing

Great to see the practice bail-out shots, something you don’t normally think of.

Late on the round-out again, Hoskins?:eek:

I guess from the damage to the trailing edge that SX274 had a ground collision rather than an overturn?

Stupid question of the day, though – why is the Tiger sat with chocks behind the wheels?

Adrian

Fascinating. I feel like I’m almost there seeing the action. Who needs YouTube?

…and finally my favourites.

Lee H, any indentifications here?

Mark

Bailing out practice

Nice formation of jet, hooked Spitefuls!
Were you away?!:D Thanks to you both for continuously posting these images.

…to continue after the little interruption.

More shots from ‘PAT’ Taylor.

Mark

Jet conversion

1833 Sqn

Am liking some of the Sea Fury shots, Mark!

Mark12
I love the FAA aircraft from this period especially Sea Furies and especially the trainer variant which seems not to get pictured that often. WE824 is a T20 trainer with no hook and a fixed tailwheel. The others in the line are possibly trainers as well in the VW range. WE824 went to Germany as a target tug where it became D-CABY and was destroyed in a crash in 1970.

Richard

James, the crew were Lt. RC Andrew, Lt WR Heathcote, and Lt AJ Wray. XL476 lost her nosewheels on take off from Hermes but diverted to Ark Royal where she entered the barrier, and amongst other things ended up with a badly damaged fin.

Rob

Superb shots, thanks to Barry and Mk12 for sharing.

The Gannet is XL476 and was with 849 C flt at the time of the accident. It suffered from a spate of Gannets losing nosewheels after take-off and obviously in this case the pilot was brave enough to land it back on, date would be 9 August 1960.
Did Barry know the crew involved?

Top draw stuff, most excellent 😎

Yet more Seafurys

‘Pat’ Taylor the source of these shots.

Rare colour.

More Seafurys

Ernie Jackson’s prang

John Kendall’s prang

Seafurys various.

Next three all HMS Illustrious

849 Sqn B Flight HMS Hermes. Images Barry Leeming

Mark

Growing up around HMS Fulmar (Lossie), I too have very fond memories of the FAA, and seeing Scimitars lined up there is one of my earliest memories.
Thanks for posting!

Same for me, at the other end of the country. I had a fun conversation with Keith Dennison one day. We are about he same age and have a lot of shared memories of air days at Lee on Solent. We used to get airfield attacks with Hunters and Scimitars, Sea Vixens a plenty and the odd Phantom removing the roof from a farm just off the end of the runway. I also remember seeing a Phantom on the far side of the airfield from the school bus and arguing with someone at school about it as they said it was impossible. It turns out it was flown out by Jonathan Whaley. I heard the story first hand after the Dunsfold show this year.

Growing up around HMS Fulmar (Lossie), I too have very fond memories of the FAA, and seeing Scimitars lined up there is one of my earliest memories.
Thanks for posting!

Great pictures 😎