british aircraft of the suez crisis

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jrk

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Jul 26, 2005
staffordshire
below are listed an assortment of RAF and FAA aircraft that played their part in the campaign.





supermarine scimitars FAA



suprmarine sea hawk FAA



fairey gannet FAA AEW



de havilland sea vixen FAA



bac canberra RAF



avro shackleton RAF AEW



avro lincoln RAF



handley page hastings RAF



douglas skyraider FAA AEW



westland sycamore with westland whirlwind RAF SAR



westland whirlwind RAF SAR



vickers valiant RAF



vickers valetta RAF



westland wyvern FAA




gloster meteors RAF
 
i havent a clue i only found the picture.perhaps its synchronised take off formation as opposed to swimming lol
 
The Scimitars were at an angle to get the right lift for the takeoff from the catapult. The strop has the plane under tension just before the launch. The tension lifts the front off the deck and the plane is supported by a wheel at the back of the plane. You can just make out the wheel and the strop (roughly halfway down the fuselage) in the photo.
We had a similar problem with the Phantom but being a much heavier plane and the design changes that would have been needed, RN Phantoms had an extending front undercarriage. On the catapult, this was extended lifting the nose of the Phantom higher of the deck, achieving the same result.

Scimitars were dreadful planes to land. It was always said that no one landed a Scimitar, they did a controlled crash landing, even on land.
 
Ah, the good old Westland Whirlwind. They had one here at RAF Finningley and it had a wasps nest in it. Amazing story of today.
 
Nonskimmer. The difference is that the Scimitar was dreadful. I think I am right in saying that half the Scimitars built crashed in accidents of one kind or another. Not always the planes fault but 50% is a huge loss.
 
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