Kemble – 20 June – Guess What

Originally posted by Jagan
That picture of the failed cat launch reminded me of the similar pics from the Indian Navy.

This is the famous Debrass incident in which he ejected underwater…

Aircraft Underwater!!

WOW !! What an awesome story !!!
You wouldn’t be able to get away with that twice in your lifetime:D

That picture of the failed cat launch reminded me of the similar pics from the Indian Navy.

This is the famous Debrass incident in which he ejected underwater…

Aircraft Underwater!!

WV908 looks superb in that colour scheme, much better then her previous one.

Super pic 🙂

M

That certainly is a lovely pic of the Sea Hawk by PerfectPic co.

Seahawk crash at Blackbushe

Melvyn,

I witnessed that – it was Farnboro’ week ’58

01-09-58 XE462/R106 Seahawk FGA6 800Sq.

It was usual for schoolboy enthusiasts to visit Blackbushe to see all the foreign visitors. That week I think we cycled over about three times from Harrow. It was Blackbushe in the morning and then over to Farnboro’ to sit on the army test sheds at Laffans Plain and watch the trade show – the best seat in town.

That year the Royal Navy were operating a Seahawk formation display team. Part way though their routine one of the Seahawks started trailing smoke until finally it dropped out of the formation and went in on the horizon. Well schoolboys will be schoolboys and we peddled off in great haste in the general direction of the smoke only to find that it had gone in vertically, straight into the hard standing on the south side of the road at Blackbushe.

I think it made the front page of the Daily Mirror/Sketch the next day. Of course that fact that it was captured on film was because of the enthusiast photographer presence at Blackbushe that week.

Needless to say schoolboys will be schoolboys and the next day, when it had cooled down, I souvenired a nice piece of fuselage structure showing a black line of the Code passing through the Extra Dark Sea Grey and Sky demarcation line. Indeed, as I type this, the very colours and details I am transmitting to Texas for the Seafire 47 repaint – all 188Mb of it. Only another hour.

Mark

“enjoy”

Oh well, there hardly seems any point now 🙁

There’s no way I’m going to be able to get anywhere near as good a picture as that in the future 🙁

It’s great, you b’st’rd! 😉

😀 😀 😀

by the way – Mr Moderator person – can we have some more Smilies, please? A green one, for jealousy, would seem appropriate right now. 😮

“enjoy”

Wow! 😎 Beautiful shot. 🙂

speaking of Blackbush & Dragonfly’s

In about 1972/3 a mate & I used to walk the 5 miles to Blackbush & clamber over the derelict Dragonfly ( ‘s ?, I think their were 2) near the old hangers (as you do as a kid), I think they ended(melted down) up at the scrap yard on the other side of the airfield.

Anybody got any pics of them ?

Sea Hawk

enjoy

There’s another egg whisk like that over at FAAM Cobham Hall – a superbly restored Mk.1 Dragonfly.

I took this, rather fuzzy, one at a well known Naval emporium recently:

Originally posted by RobAnt
Nice to see the old Dragonfly there, I was hoping someone would post a clearer view of it – you can just see one far off in the background of one of the earlier shots.

I can just see Mickey Rooney at the controls now, plucking that pilot out of the drink.

(Movie – “Bridges of Toko-ri” I think – no Seahawks in it though – 🙁 ).

This one is preserved at Chatham dockyard.
mmitch.

There is a photo in the control tower at Blackbushe of a Sea Hawk nose down and vertical about fifty feet off the deck on the other side of the A30 to where the control tower is now. Apparently it was at an airshow there and the guy lost it but successfully compressed his spine on one of Mr Martin and Mr Baker’s finest before the Sea Hawk became an ex-Sea Hawk (or, if it had been a Spitfire, a future restoration project!)

One of those pics you look at and go “booming heck” – but only if you live in a 1950s sitcom, otherwise you yell something that would be censored from this forum!

Melvyn

Originally posted by RobAnt
Nice to see the old Dragonfly there, I was hoping someone would post a clearer view of it – you can just see one far off in the background of one of the earlier shots.

I can just see Mickey Rooney at the controls now, plucking that pilot out of the drink.

(Movie – “Bridges of Toko-ri” I think – no Seahawks in it though – 🙁 ).

Oh yes one of my favourite movies !!
Beautiful F9F Panthers too…

Anyway, this is the British equivalent of that…..;)

Nice to see the old Dragonfly there, I was hoping someone would post a clearer view of it – you can just see one far off in the background of one of the earlier shots.

I can just see Mickey Rooney at the controls now, plucking that pilot out of the drink.

(Movie – “Bridges of Toko-ri” I think – no Seahawks in it though – 🙁 ).

“Note the waves from the Carrier, seems to be doing a sharp turn to port after the accident, maybe back into the wind ?”

It could be that they were turning back onto thier original course after the SeaHawk landed.They would’ve turned the ship into wind for the aircraft’s landing.
It may also be that they wanted the wind to blow across the deck to try and carry any ensuing fire over the empty side of the deck rather than down the deck and/or towards the island and other superstructure on the starboard side.
Just my tuppence worth…nice pics btw 🙂

and another..

(photo from http://www.aeroplaneart.com.au)

Note the waves from the Carrier, seems to be doing a sharp turn to port after the accident, maybe back into the wind ?

here’s a good one

(photo from http://www.aeroplaneart.com.au)

Caption reads:
HAWKER SEA HAWK on HMS BULWARK about to be launched.

Westland Dragonfly in the background.

oops, my quoting didn’t go so well…

Originally posted by mike currill
Rest assured Turbo, if she gets airborne again this year (there have been various things stopping her every time they’ve tried) there will be so many people over the moon that she’s flying again you’ll be asking us not to post any more as you’ve no memory left on your computer

I’ll try and find some more pics of the Sea Hawk to post

Cheers
Chris

Originally posted by duxfordhawk
My Camera is ready and waiting and a new lense is on the way to get flying shots,So between all of us here we should get some great photos for you Turbo.

Originally posted by mike currill
My Camera is ready and waiting and a new lense is on the way to get flying shots,So between all of us here we should get some great photos for you Turbo.

All I can say to that is –

Sea Hawk pics+CD burner+this forum=one happy NZ Forum User
😀