Lucky Fury pilot.

6-27 was on board Illustrious when it had the accident, about 20 years ago the port wing was snagged by a trawler’s nets in the Irish Sea. It was landed at Howth outside Dublin and almost on my doostep. The Dutch national marks were still on the wing.
Tony K

Sorry, had a wedding to go to.
‘The Fleet Air Arm in Focus – Part Two’; has this pic and another of a pranged 6.46 (both Fokker built) on board HMS Illustrious (or so the captions say). There are no credits given except that the majority came from the FAA Museum.
They are both FB.51s, according to http://www.aeroflight.co.uk/waf/neth/mld/types/sea_fury51.htm:- 6.27 was apparently written off on HMS Illustrious on 3/9/53 whilst 6.46 is given as being in an accident on HrMs Karel Doorman on 31/8/53, and written off on 24/2/54 – no location.

Flood

oooh BAD babelfish!!!! anyone know of a translation program that does slang?. this is one word that damn teacher failed to tell us, GRRRRRRRRRRRRR

droevig,

OH DROL!!!!! 😮

If only you knew what drol means in Dutch 😉

Cheers

Cees

I wonder what he’s saying 😀

OH DROL!!!!! 😮

HMS Illustrious. 860NAS (Dutch). Cross decking.

I’m sure you’re right. Care to share your source(s)?

HMS Illustrious. 860NAS (Dutch). Cross decking.

Flood

Dutch as Alex says.

It’ll be aboard the ‘Karel Dorman’ carrier, and ex-RN example.

Bet he was moving fast.

Hi,

Don’t know about the incident, but it looks like a Dutch Fury to me.

Alex