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Beautiful aircraft !

I remember standing underneath them on an aircraft carrier with the Westland helicopters just to the side, great memories

Awww, take off please.

Such character in an aircraft design.

Crooss decked with the Ark Royal in 1970/71 and had several British AC come aboard to land and launch from USS Independence and the Gannet had one of the slowest approach speeds to the wires ever I saw. Looked like they were just floating into the wires. And yes the first thots in my year and a half out of LR, Ark was, if ugly was a weapon. I dint know any better🫤

I just now came across this plane. Love at first sight. People say it's ugly, but I think it looks really cool in it's own beautifully bulky way. If anything else, it's so ugly I love it!!

Wow, that is a brute ! What an aircraft, love it 😮

Such a crazy lil aircraft

And we all sing together "There once was an ugly duckling....etc". Damned useful one though.

The aeronautical equivalent of Susan Boyle...

Such a cool bird

It's not her, it's just it. Why do people insist on assigning gender to inanimate objects? I know other languages have gender but only in the construction of sentences, but English dropped it. So odd, why don't we call it 'he'? Why is it always "her" an object designed to be an instrument of war, shouldn't it be "him" or "he"?.. After all, men start wars except for Thatcher, but she had balls bigger than Trumps. Can't we just appreciate the engineering that went into this plane for what it is and not feminize it?

Engine was Armstrong Siddeley Double Mamba turboprop

What's happened to this Gannet, is it still flyable?

Double Mamba Engine

woosh, if the propeller being invisible wont give away that its running, the narly off line... white lines, sureley will, that sheewrsh looked trippy for a second there

The original engine start was by a cordite cartridge. The starter was made by Rotax and held 2 cartridges. It had fins and looked like a motorcycle engine. When the cartridge fired, it spun a turbine which was geared to the single shaft turbo prop engine. If the engine failed to pull away on the first attempt, the pilot could fire the second cartridge. The engine was the Armstrong Siddeley Double Mamba which comprised 2 identical engines driving contra-rotating propellers via a common gearbox. Each engine had its own starter, so 4 cartridges in all.

I used to love seeing them around where I lived. It worked, what was wrong with that? I’ll tell what was ugly- the Sea King. A helicopter crossed with a Short Sunderland.

Charles Fairey, the founder of the Fairey Aviation Company was my great uncle. Heathrow Airport used to be the FAC testing grounds. British govt. commandeered it for use during WW2, then didn't want to give it back. FAC had to sue for compensation. Always good to see one of the last true FAC built aircraft in operation!

Do miss the old keresene burner over this side of the pond, remember sitting in the cockpit of one of these on the fire dump on Gibraltar many, many moons ago.

You have to Love the Gannet.🤗

Well that's interesting so is it a jet or a propeller driven or what did they use this aircraft for

A large bird !

That start cart,was that basically a wrack of gas/air bottles?? Cool if so,like an air starter on diesel engines. Love this wierd bird. The engine's arrangement and that wing fold mechanism are just so cool!

How old is it?

Stupidly big, stupidly powerful, stupidly overkill. I love this aircraft so much...

MK100?

Ooooh...... he is sooo cute🥺

Nice airplane with 2 separate gasturbines.

If pigs could fly this would be it.

Would like to schedule an appointment to come out and take a look

There's an Aviation Museum at the end of my road that has has a Gannet sitting outside looking rather sad with a couple of tarpaulins over it.

how can one film the counter-rotating propellers with a phone?

Damn Boi he thicc

A Gannet just like this one currently resides at the Berkshire museum of aviation, outside in the elements... for years... tis a sorry sight to see every time I pass.

Built to do a job, which it did, luckily not in anger. Some of the best tools are also the least beautiful. Proud to say I used to go to one of Fairey's factories to fix cnc machines that drilled ventilation holes in turbine blades.

No cans of Guinness were harmed in the starting of this aircraft

Jesus those revs just don't stop climbing! Brits had such an innovative and diverse aerospace industry.

The blast from the first Prop can start the 2nd Engine

I wonder if they could tweak them the fly of chuck and lizzy. Maybe rato take off. Ugly.. maybe.. effective.. yup

Wow. The hairs on the back of my neck rose at that Mamba howl at about 4 minutes...I used to lie in bed in the married quarters at RNAS Culdrose as a kid listening to the Gannets night flying..brought it all back in an instant. My fathers squadron..831 NAS, had a number of ECM variants on charge. Great aircraft, great post. Thanks so much.

I saw a Gannet on the ramp at Pratt & Whitney’s East Hartford, Connecticut, plant in about 1980. No idea what it was doing there, and of course I didn’t have a camera with me.

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This what happens when a plane is designed by a committee

I saw this as a young boy of 11 outside the Juanda airport in Surabaya, Indonesia. It was a static display but the unusual shape of the aircraft left a lasting memory on me. Last year as an old fart of 56 year old I was back in Surabaya and the static display was still there. This time I did my research and found the name of the aircraft, Faiery Garnet. All along I thought it was a Soviet plane.

Whoever thought this thing up is nuts.

It really is a "Supa mega-fugly with a bastard arsehole twist"! (A verse from a song by an infamous Australian comedian/singer & songwriter; Kevin Bloody Wilson).

Sub killers!!

Its so cute that fat airplane

What a beast of a plane