All Photographs © 1997 Geoff Sobering, Non-commercial Use Allowed with Attribution, All Other Rights Reserved
These photographs were taken at the 1997 EAA Oshkosh Fly-In.
The Farie Gannet was one of the airborne early warning aircraft developed in the 1950's. It was designed for aircraft carrier operation. Perhaps it's most unusual feature are the contra-rotating propellers connected to the Armstrong Siddeley Double Mamba engine (gotta love those British aviation names!). For more information about the Gannett, I've found a few links (aeroweb, tpgi, Hungarian) including one about the Austrialian history and deployment.
At the Saturday warbirds show, the announcer made a special note of the Gannet, so I made a special effort to get some photos of it in warbirds area. The folding wings are particularly interesting(read: bizzare!).
A note about the photographs: if a thumbnail picture is a link, clicking on it will load an image approximately 500x300 pixels large (~60Kb). Under each thumbnail is the word "huge". Clicking there will load the original scanned image of about 800x500 pixels at JPEG 75% quality (~200Kb).
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