"A gentleman's aircraft" - only an Englishman would come out with a description like that :) What an amazing feat of engineering the Gannet was!

what a monster... its a beauty

A wonderful aircraft flew by wonderful men. Peter Twist was an enigmatic flyer who was highly influential in the development of post war aircraft in the UK and especially this marvellous example of British engineering - RIP Sir!

This reminds me of my childhood again, tuning into Discovery Wings and watching Classic British Aircraft with Dad. Oh I miss those days!

Great documentary of a absolutely amazing aircraft that served British Navy. Congrats from Portugal 👍🇵🇹

Must have been lovely to fly. The two engines must have given many a pilot a safe feeling. I think she is pretty. Versatile.

What a cracking plane!

When Britain designed and manufactured their own aircraft. 👍🇺🇲🇬🇧

A beautiful example of aeronautical innovation! The ability to cruise on one engine, swapping them around was ingenious! I love the Gannet!!👍🏽🇺🇸

Thank You. As a 1960s schoolboy I remember looking these aircraft up and watching clips of them occasionally on the television. My Older cousin , John Bartlett, was I believe the 3rd crew member on a Fairey Gannet , although I cannot remember on which aircraft carrier he served in. I was taken with its twin propeller arrangement, its robustness and its ability to do what it was designed for. An impressive aircraft.

There is a Gannet at the Dumfries and Galloway Aviation Museum. It's in fair condition, but parked outside. They have a double Mamba also, in their engine collection in the old watch office.

Form follows function and this airplane was excellent for what it was designed, like an A-10 Warthog, joining tne ranks of aircraft called "ugly" by some, but so, so beautiful at fullfilling the ir jobs and missions. Great plane! Thank you for the excellent video!

Super film, I remember making an Airfix model Gannet more than 50 years ago. Thank you for posting this.

"Would you like to see Britannia rule again. My Friend?" Yes. Yes I would. I'm not even British, yet here I am feeling nostaglic watching this.

I went to one of the Biggin Hill airshows around 1968 as a young sprog and recall the commentator saying that if we smile, the Gannet can pick up gold fillings😄

Absolutely love this series...thanks for sharing these gems..😊 kind regards Dave

I seem to recall that they liked to play a trick on the crowds as air shows: they would come in low and slow, and then shut down one engine. There were always gasps when the crowd saw the propeller stop!

The Royal Australian Navy operated the Gannet also, probably longer than the RN. I remember seeing one at the Camden Air Museum in the 1970's. It was just enormous looking to me as a boy.

Remember seeing a Gannet as a gate Gaurdian at Prestwick HMS Gannet , a real impressive looking Aircraft..

Spent most of a year on development of the Armstrong Siddeley Double Mamba in 1955. Have great affection for the Fairey Gannet. Love the unique sound from the 1500rpm conta-rotating props.

It appears to have a more extensive exhaust system than most planes!

That is fantastic thanks!. what a monster... its a beauty.

I love it, I like odd airplanes. I have this 1/72 old plastic Scale Model on my shelf 😎

Never new they routinely feathered one engine when cruising

I don't know why but the British love to put a coal hole on their aircraft for the Observer. The Canberra had one the sea Vixen had one and I think you could call that thing in the back of the Gannett a Coal hole. The bastard's probably didn't even have a ejection seat because it would be an NCO in there. By the way, that is the first aircraft I have ever seen with a scrotum.

My friends uncle was a part of the design team. I'm just waiting for the large scale AIRFIX model to come out shortly... My engineering teacher in the RAF said he once saw a pilot on final approach fold his wings, sadly.....

My late father was a Fleet Chief REA and loved the Gannet, worked on them on and off carriers.

That's got to be Harry Enfield reading the narrative

👍Thanks for posting these excerpts.

That is fantastic thanks!

One of the coolest planes ever

1st time ive ever seen or heard of this plane- is a Beautiful plane in its own way 🙂 - very interesting plane and id like to see more of it - maybe some day it will show up at an air show MAYBE

Loved the Gannet as much as the Buccs & Phantoms ... Flight Deck Party (two drafts 6.5 years on deck) HMS Ark Royal R09

What an amazing plane! Thanks for your video introducing it to me in 2023!

Beautiful aircraft

Weird and wonderful plane. All the old airframes are dwindling to extinction.

Beautiful and interesting aircraft.

The first time I found out about this aircraft was in the documentary "Sailor" about the old Ark Royal. I didn't know the Gannet had the compartment in the back for radar, or the bomb carrying capability. I think all fixed wing aircraft over the ocean should have two engines like the Gannet, F-18, Hawkeye, etc.

It looks so ungainly like it shouldn't be able to fly, I think its a gorgeous aircraft !

Really a wonderful channel!!! Keep it up!

The Flying Museum at Moorabbin Airport in S/E Melbourne has an ex -RAN one sitting outside. Gawd! What a fright of an aircraft to come across with it's wing's folded up! It's huge, it's ugly and it has looks that only a Mother could love, but back in the day it was a real danger to submarines around Australian waters and to anyone else who wasn't supposed to be in our waters. Mark from Melbourne Australia

I first saw this aircraft at the Yorkshire Air museum, I'd never heard of it before and thought it looked like a fat relic, too big for the wings. After looking into it, wow, what an aircraft. Thanks for the video.

To me it represents British aviation technology, My father helped build a far less successful machine, the Blue Steel rocket so I was taken many years to Farnborough Air Show and saw many wonderful British planes.

Cool looking British aircraft from the Cold War era. Good video. 👍. Hello from Buckeye, Arizona USA 🌵.

Worked on these as a trainee at HMS Daedalus back in the 80’s

Vă respect cu înalt respect domnule. Comandor.

The Gannet parked up next to the Berkshire Air Museum Car Park is on what is left of one of the former Miles works and airfield. The wings are folded and it looks like it might almost start flapping them to get into the air. Maybe that's because it is close to a Country Park featuring lakes and waterfowl. Some unlikely looking birds launch into the air from there too. That Gannet is a training version (T5 ). Because of the layout, the occupant of the second cockpit needed a visual aid to see forward (presumably the instructor). I remember it being a large mirror mounted overhead at 45 degrees - simple but one assumes effective. I think the first UK Biro (literally Biro) factory was once based there at the same time. Back in the day "Biros' were precision instruments and it was thought consistent with the skills of an aviation engineer.

I was in the Royal Navy FAA 11:42 from 1966 to 1981, i worked on Gannet Mk 3’s on 849 Squadron and was on HMS Hermes on A flight, good times 😄

It looks like a Westland Wyvern and a Grumman TBF/TBM Avenger had a baby.

Fantastic and innovative. I do have a soft spot for it and The A1 Sky raider a bit more of the later because I was fortunate to go flying in the A1 .best $300 I ever spent. They do love the fuel . My buddy went in a Steadman WWI $175 I got a half hour he go a hour.. we both had equal fun. The Carnival of the Air show. The winning prize is the joy ride.😁

Fairey Gannet: 'The Postman'--always delivered!

we had a very similar aircraft in france it was called the Breguet Br.1050 Alizé , must have been inspired by such a great plane !

Interesting, never heard of or seen this plane

Who narrated this? Sounds like Harry Enfield! Anyway, I remember one of these being parked up at RAF Bruggen for a while, and when it finally left, I just happened to be there to watch it depart. By far and away the loudest aircraft I have ever seen take off, and that includes the Vulcan and Concord!

What an empress, Would love to go for a hop in one, but Airfix is the only way I will get to see a Gannet

Some SERIOUS horsepower.

Our navy air wing use this aircraft in 1958 until midle 70 and now retired . TNI AL or indonesian navy air wing

Lossiemouth had been handed over to the RAF but still had 849 Navy squadron based there with the Fairy Gannet, they operated from the other side of the airfield from us with the Jaguar, but they passed us regularly on the taxiway. it was a big aircraft. They also called an emergency state two on a regular basis, declaring smoke in the cockpit, we would then stand out on the line and watch them land, I do not ever remember any real problems, they all landed safely,

Ive stood next to that ugly bloody thing at duxford and its absolutely colossal??,its like standing next to a ww2 twin engined medium bomber...only a face a mother would love...

I'm honestly surprised Gaijin Entertainment did not add the Gannet to War Thunder as a carrier-based bomber.

Great channel but it would be nice to know what year the content was filmed.

I always liked this plane (I happen to like rugged looking planes) but I didn't know about the double engine.

Armstrong Snidely engines with alloy and titanium parts the 1960s Fairey Gannet the best in the class.

There was oneof these at the old Errol airport near Dundee, Scotland . Dont know if its still there but might be worth a look ?

Excellent, as usual. Is the narrator Harry Enfield?

The Narrator was Harry Enfield, would you believe?

Love British aircraft from this era, it’s all very Dan Dare 😁

Great performer, the Gannet, if you saw a few carrier landings and take offs you'ld never think of her as an ugly ducking!

"A sturdy aircraft" but he pulled the wings off in a G-manoeuvre LOL

Great vid. Pretty sure twin gas turbines would sound pretty different to all the dubbed sound though!

There's a Gannet in Jakarta. It may have a working engine, or at least one you can get running.

Is that Harry Enfield narrating?

Strange aircraft design for sure

"The expurgated version." "The one without the Gannet." "I don't like the gannet. They wet their nests!"

Badly missed during the Falklands War in it's AEW role. If these had been flying a CAP the UK's losses would have dropped to zero!

XA460 currently nearing completion of restoration (non flying) at Ulster Aviation Society collection at Long Kesh near Lisburn

Always liked the black livery of the COD version.

Looks heavy

As the saying goes, "If it's ugly, it's Russian. If it's weird, it's French. If it's ugly and weird, it's British". The Gannet is very British.

The Gannet was ugly but it was a very effective aircraft for hunting submarines, long loiter time and good weapons load, nothing really to compare it to. Very nice seeing Peter Twist who flew the Fairey Delta 2 at Mach 2.09 and took the World Air Speed Record at 1,132 mph in March 1956.

Good looking plane. Wonder why the 2nd observer had to sit backwards?

Aeronave incrível! Muito interessante! 🌟

It is a shame that the Fairey Gannet had too short a career in the RN, MFB and in the Royal Navy in Australia. Fairey Gannet should be in exstem upgraded Fairey Gannet of 2023 edition. A very well thought out aircraft for the Navy. Not awake but deadlit if Fairey Gannet. I have a relative who flew the Fairey Gannet in the MFB in Germany, he then became a rear admiral in the MFB.

the British navalized carrier borne Fairey Gannet AS.1 maritime multi role ASW fighter could have done with a proper internal gun . . . a modified compact 25 MM GAU-12/U three-barrel rotary cannon built into the forward starboard side lower fuselage section of the Gannet AS.1 . . . rate of fire of the GAU-12/U will have to be calibrated in sync with rotation of the front propellers, so as not to damage the props when firing . . . a stretched variant of the carrier borne Fairey Gannet AS.1 maritime multi role ASW fighter would have served the ASW role better than the existing variant . . . a stretched variant would incorporate a larger internal bomb bay, big enough to fit 2 MU90 lightweight guided torpedo & three AGM-84J Harpoon (Block XII) active radar homing GPS guided anti-ship missiles . . . the carrier borne Fairey Gannet AS.1 maritime multi role ASW fighter can still be used in it's ASW role, albeit with a host of modifications & upgrades . . .

Narrated by.... Harry Enfield?

Kind of obscure engine solution

Why bother with the double-folding wing? What is wrong with the side-folding wing so successfully used on the Grumman Wildcat, Hawkeye, et al??

Please tell me that wasn't Harry Enfield narrating!

Harry Enfeild on commentary lol

Super echipat.

"it was a very sturdy aircraft" Next sentence.. "The 2 outer sections of wing fell off"

Harry Enfield?

Looks in real ugly but mighty

Does anyone know why there were two observers?

Is that Harry Enfield Narrating?

Wonder why they decided to have the engines drive separate propellors? I know contra-rotating props are good to counteract the torque effect, so that bit's fine... but twin-engined helicopters can run on one engine, and only have one set of rotors...

the aircraft design is great but in term of economics and numbers, its better to have 2 different aircrafts with single engine than 1 aircraft with 2 engine, cuz it doesn't seem to give astronomical advantage to have 2 propeller engines with blades standing one after another, difference is negligible.

I know where a beautiful example is

The US tried a very similiar Aircraft in the SKY PIRATE, designed for the same role, but was not a success.