Fleet Air Arm Photos on flickr…

026 is clearly a Mosquito on deck – going by all the scrambled egg, and absence of wing fold, I’d guess one of the early experimental flights.

In which case is this Captain Eric ‘Winkle’ Brown?

JDK/Creaking door..thanks for your help.

I think that’s a Mk.V Barra.

RK536 Barracuda V – One of the last batch of 30 Barracuda ever built.

Ready for collection 13/02/1946
Empire Central Flying School, Handling Squadron, Hullavington 22/02/1946
783 Squadron Lee-on-Solent 14/11/1947
Royal Navy Aircraft Yard Donibristle 18/10/1948
Struck-Off-Charge Receipt and Despatch Unit Anthorn(?) 10/08/1950

Just happened to have a certain Air-Britain publication handy. 🙂

…and Walrus

You rang? 😀

I think that’s a Mk.V Barra.

Walrus. The photo No.170 of the Walrus is quite a well known one, part of a sequence. It’s on an Escort Carrier, and in SEAC two-colour roundels with white wing stripes – used for Air-Sea Rescue. 099 Pre-war Walrus, RN use. Photo 090 is a Walrus engine nacelle. Picture 83 I’ve not seen before, interesting. From the chap sitting on the top centre section, I’d suggest the aircraft has just been hoisted aboard and parked up front fwd of the barrier. Again plenty of clues to say ‘Far East’.

Photo 151 is a Gladiator (or was) with the tail of a Blenheim to the left. The loss of the undercarriage and the white patch on the foreground implies it may have been a landing accident.

The photo 133 of the Swordfish is almost certainly a photo taken of one of the two aircraft used in 1959 for filming ‘Sink the Bismarck’ and flown by Peter Twiss among others. The oversize and incorrect ‘5A’ is indicative, and was kept on LS for some years afterwards. The first aircraft was LS326 (G-AJVH) the other NF389.

Photo 124 is one of the few, and thus famous shots of the Taranto raid.

098 Fairey Albacore.

74 and 40 and 11 are pre-war shots of the HP Heracles airliners, the last looks likwe a HP ‘official’ shot perhaps?

026 is clearly a Mosquito on deck – going by all the scrambled egg, and absence of wing fold, I’d guess one of the early experimental flights.

Fascinating stuff, hope that helps.

Thanks Malcolm

I’ll stop posting these soon but there are lots of good, unidentified photosets people have found or inherited. This photoset has photographs of Seafires, Avengers, Hellcats and Walrus, as well as combat photos and misc types.

Is this an early or late mark Barracuda (I think late?)

Late