ONLY FLYING FAIREY GANNET LEFT IN THE WORLD (2015)
The first British plane with nuclear capabilities flew during The Cold War; it’s called the Fairey Gannet and was used to fight the Russians. Western Wisconsin is now home to one of those planes and it is the only one in the world that still flies. The Fairey Gannet, called Janet, is one of eight that flew during The Cold War. It is an impressive sight with a wing span nearly 60 feet long. When the wings fold up, the span is 22 feet long. "She's quite unique," Pilot Harry Odone said. "Out of all of them, she's the granddaddy. She's the longest serving Gannet in the world. Quite an amazing article to have. I'm very proud of her." Shannan Hendricks, who is now Odone 's wife, bought the plane after the museum it was in closed. Figuring out how to get it from Canada to Minnesota and then to New Richmond was a chore. The plane sat in Canada for years. Then, others wanted it and stole the plane’s parts. "We had to use the FBI, Canadian Police, CID (Criminal Investigation Department) in England, to try and track down what was going on because it was organized crime," Odone said. Eventually, the Canadian government called saying the aircraft was illegally parked. The couple had to move fast. "It was too big to go onto the road and be trucked back to the United States," Odone said. "It couldn't be hauled, and couldn't be taken apart in any significant manner because it was too big to go on the road." Ironically, they found a Russian company that makes massive cargo planes to fly it to Minnesota. "To move the airplane alone, we're talking about $200,000," Odone said. That price was even discounted. Once inside the hangar, Odone had to restore it. "I have over five and a half thousand hours myself on the maintenance on the aircraft," Odone said. "I spent six months soda blasting the airplane, taking every inch of paint off the aircraft." Despite the man hours and a lot of money, Odone says it has all been worth it. "If it was your own home, or own family, you wouldn't give up, and that's how we looked at it," Odone said. Janet the Gannet is part of their family, and the hope is that your family will see her too. "It's about sharing it," Odone said. "It's not about having an aircraft and keeping it to ourselves. It's an amazing piece of history and everybody should be a part of it."
Rolls-Royce Merlin Engine
Considered a British icon, the Merlin was one of the most successful aircraft engines of the World War II era, and many variants were built by Rolls-Royce in Derby, Crewe and Glasgow,as well as by Ford of Britain at their Trafford Park factory, near Manchester. The Packard V-1650 was a version of the Merlin built in the United States. Production ceased in 1950 after a total of almost 150,000 engines had been delivered, the later variants being used for airliners and military transport aircraft. The PV-12 first ran in 1933 and, after several modifications, the first production variants were built in 1936. The first operational aircraft to enter service using the Merlin were the Fairey Battle, Hawker Hurricane and Supermarine Spitfire. More Merlins were made for the four-engined Avro Lancaster heavy bomber than for any other aircraft; however, the engine is most closely associated with the Spitfire, starting with the Spitfire's maiden flight in 1936. A series of rapidly applied developments, brought about by wartime needs, markedly improved the engine's performance and durability.
Wings Parade
Shots of men bombing up a Fairey Battle. AIR TO AIR shot of Fairey Battle. Closer view of bombs falling. AERIAL SHOT of bombs falling.
King George VI, Queen Elizabeth and two parliament members inspect a British aircraft factory in Britain.
Inspection of a British aircraft plant in Britain during World War II. King George VI and Queen Elizabeth of the United Kingdom and two parliament members enter an aircraft plant. They inspect a British aircraft factory. An unidentified aircraft being assembled in the background. Factory workers at work in the plant. Queen Elizabeth looks at a partly assembled British Fairey Albacore torpedo bomber. The King and the Queen and the parliament members walk in front of the aircraft being assembled. Civilians and factory workers in the background. Location: United Kingdom. Date: 1940.
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Soldiers practice shooting artillery at radio controlled pilot-less Fairey Queen IIIF plane in September of 1937 near Somerset, England
NEWS PAGEANT OF MOVIETONE - Reported by Leslie Mitchell
ISSUE_NO = 495A NO_OF_ITEMS = 12 ITEM_NO = 5 DESCRIPTION : NEW AIR LINER IN MINIATURE - The model of the new Fairey Transport plane. CARD_FILE = 34920 CARD_TITLE : New Fairey Transport Plane SHOT_LIST : A model of the new Fairey Transport plane which is destined for service on the Imperial Airways routes is demonstrated KEYWORDS : Personalities - Miscellaneous; Business and Commerce; Aviation - Innovations; Great Britain MATERIAL : Neg 4483 LENGTH_SHOT = 49 DATE_SUBD = 11/22/1938
Exhibit by American street art designer Obey
Malta during World War II
Film begins showing young school children on Malta, walking, through streets littered with rubble, on their way to an outdoor school during World War 2. . Several scenes of the children at school. They line up outside a building and then proceed to their outdoor classrooms, all of which have desks for them. Several scenes focusing on the children in various outdoor settings. British sailors move a torpedo on a transporter to arm a British Navy Fairey Swordfish biplane torpedo bomber. They roll the torpedo underneath the aircraft to fasten it in place. Naval aviators discuss the mission. A swordfish plane starts its engine. Sailors move munitions from storage in medieval moats, through walled passage ways to arm the aircraft. They load a torpedo onto a Bristol Beaufort twin engine torpedo bomber. The Beaufort bomber starts engines, taxis, and takes off. It is followed by two Hawker Hurricane fighter aircraft. Malta defenders with anti-aircraft guns in positions under camouflage netting. One with binoculars scans the sky for enemy aircraft. He speaks into a radio. Air raid alarms sound, and civilians run to shelters, as the military mans anti-aircraft guns. Fighter pilots run to their aircraft. A Fairy Firefly fighter plane is seen readied and waiting for a pilot. Closeup of pilot climbing into cockpit. Anti-aircraft gun crew mans its gun. Farm workers pause and look skyward. Anti-aircraft guns firing. Axis aircraft downed by anti-aircraft fire, crashes in explosion. Guns fire at a German Heinkel 111 bombers. Bombs exploding on the ground. Civilians seen in a bomb shelter. Numerous bombs striking all across a city. People emerging from their shelters after the raids. Newspaper front page shows George VI and notes that he has awarded Malta the George Cross. Boys running to distribute the papers. A florist shop owner places flowers on display outside his shop. Location: Malta. Date: 1943.
Commonwealth Air Training Plan (Wings of Youth)
Various shots from various distances, of a Fairey Battle taxiing away on airfield.
Reports:
ISSUE_NO = 355 NO_OF_ITEMS = 11 ITEM_NO = 3 DESCRIPTION : New RAF Plane CARD_FILE = 4346 CARD_TITLE : New RAF Plane SHOT_LIST : Shots of the new Fairey 'Battle' bomber. In air. Over camera etc. Landing. Lights placed in the wings. It is a monoplane. SOUND : Commentator KEYWORDS : Airforce - Active; Aviation; Fairey Battle Light Bombers; Great Britain MATERIAL : Combined Dupe Neg 05162 LENGTH_SHOT = 63
Diane Feinstein / American Women Study / News Conference (1993)
The History of the Helicopter
The History of the Helicopter. The history of the helicopter, from initial attempts in the early years of the 20th Century to the 1950's.. 1950s, helicopters, 1903 Wright Brother's first flight, fixed wing aircrafts, moving wing attempts in early 1900s, early attempts at vertical flight aircrafts, Breguet-Richet Gyroplane No. 1, early attempts at rotorcraft / rotary-wing aircrafts, early helicopters, Berliner helicopter 1908-9, Oehmichen 1920, Oehmichen 1922, Lein Weber-Curtis 1921, 1922 Georges & Jerome-de Bothezat's Flying Octopus, 1924 Raul Pescara's Pescara No.3, Asboth 1928-1930, model showing stability problems of rotary wing aircraft, hinged blades on helicopter, Juan de la Cierva and Cierva C.19 autogyro in flight and landing, autogyros taking off and in flight, 1930 Nicholas Florine shows machine with flapping blade at Brussels Exhibition, Corradino D'Ascanio establishes first world helicopter record as he flew 8 3/4 minutes, 1936 Louis Breguet's Gyroplane Laboratoire sets world records, cyclic pitch control, slow motion helicopter blades rising and falling, helicopter taking off and doing turns, 1937 Focke-Achgelis Focke-Wulf Fw 61 flown by Hanna Reitsch in Berlin Sports Stadium, Igor Sikorsky flying VS-300 setting World's Record, modern helicopter taking off and hovering, British Bristol Type 171 Sycamore, Cierva Air Horse, Cierva W.14 Skeeter, Fairey Gyrodyne, Louis Breguet's three seater helicopter using superimposed contra-rotating rotors, Sud-Ouest six seater developed from pre-war Focke-Achgelis, Sud-Ouest F-WFUF, jet powered helicopters, McDonnell XH-20 Little Henry, Hiller Hornet, Sikorsky S-51 transporting mail, Sikorsky S-55, cargo being loaded into Bell H-12, small Bell helicopters spraying cattle galloping in pasture and spraying pesticide onto orchard, rotor down wash being used to gather walnuts, helicopter transporting exploration party to oil reserve, man seated in helicopter using it as work platform for precise geological readings, Piasecki H-21 flying banana military helicopters, Kaman military helicopter using twin intermeshing rotors, military helicopters being used for emergency rescue, helicopter being used in 1946 Antarctic expedition, Operation Highjump, Hiller 360, aerial Grand Canyon, helicopter flying over Grand Canyon, aerial galloping elk, helicopter flying over galloping elk, helicopter transporting construction materials into Welsh mountains to repair dam, in flight helicopter shadow on ground, man pushing Hiller Hornet helicopter out of garage, helicopter landing on field, chemists and engineers developing helicopter technology, gasoline and jet engines
ISSUE_NO = 637 NO_OF_ITEMS = 5 ITEM_NO = 3 DESCRIPTION : FLEET AIR ARM AIDS RUSSIA - Two days after Finland throw in her lot with Germany, planes of the Fleet Air Arm raided the Finnish port of Petsamo. CARD_FILE = 41160 CARD_TITLE : F.A.A. Raid Petsamo SHOT_LIST : HM Aircraft Carriers "Furious" and "Victorious" accompanied by other warships, steam North to raid Petsamo and Kirknenes. On the journey, anti-submarine patrol practice is carried out, while Fulmars, Skuas, Swordfish, Albacores are bombed up, and "torpedoed". Various scenes of the take off from the aircraft carrier, and long shots from other ships. No actual scenes of the raid were taken. KEYWORDS : Ships and Boats; Navy - Active; Munitions and Armaments; Aviation; Airforce - Active; Soviet Union; Blackburn Skua Dive-bombers; Fairey Albacore Bombers; Fairey Swordfish Aircraft; Fairey Fulmar Fighters MATERIAL : Neg 5816A Cuts 5771 LENGTH_SHOT = 1378 DATE_SUBD = 08/14/1941
Magnificent Flyers
Several AIR TO AIR LSs of Royal Canadian Navy Fairey Fireflies airborne, putting off over airfield. MS and CUs of Fireflies airborne.
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Military aircraft are displayed at show in Farnborough, England
ARTIST BEHIND OBAMA 'HOPE' CRAFTS HARRIS IMAGE
<p></p>\n<p><b>--SUPERS</b>--</p>\n<p>SHEPARD FAIREY</p>\n<p></p>\n<p><b>--VO SCRIPT</b>--</p>\n<p>"FORWARD"- THAT IS THE WORD FEATURED ON KAMALA HARRIS' NEW CAMPAIGN POSTER.</p>\n<p>ITS' AESTHETIC IS REMINISCENT OF THE "HOPE" POSTER DEPICTING FORMER PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA FOR HIS 20-08 CAMPAIGN. </p>\n<p>AND THAT'S BECAUSE IT WAS DESIGNED BY THE SAME ARTIST. </p>\n<p>SHEPARD FAIREY'S "FORWARD" POSTER FEATURES HARRIS WEARING A PEARL NECKLACE AND EARRING AND DRESSED IN SHADES OF BLUE.</p>\n<p>FAIREY IN A NEWS CONFERENCE REPEATED THE DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE'S WORDS - "WE ARE NOT GOING BACK" </p>\n<p>THOSE WORDS WERE THE INSPIRATION FOR THE WORD FORWARD-- WITH FAIREY SAYING "IN ORDER TO NOT GO BACK, WE MUST GO FORWARD!"</p>\n<p><b>-----END-----CNN.SCRIPT-----</b></p>\n<p></p>\n<p><b>--KEYWORD TAGS--</b></p>\n<p><b>PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN 2024 POLITICS ART AND STYLE </b></p>\n<p></p>
Vincent Dedienne; Anny Duperey; Jonathan Cohen
Crew members of German submarine, U-29, decorated after sinking British Carrier, Courageous. German destroyers in North Sea
View of the British aircraft carrier, Courageous, from Fairey Swordfish aircraft that has just taken off. Captain Schuhart, commander of the German submarine U-29 enters harbor with crew on deck after successfully sinking the British Aircraft Carrier, Courageous, off the coast of England, on September 17, 1939. Captain Schuhart steps from the U-29 to the shore and is immediately awarded the Iron Cross, first class. His crew members are seen wearing awards of Iron Cross, second class. German Destroyers underway in the North Sea. They maneuver guns and torpedo launchers. A boarding party from a German destroyer accosts a merchant vessel, which they board and signal as OK. The boarding party returns to the destroyer, which then steams away at high speed. Location: Atlantic Ocean. Date: September 1939.
Bismarck, a German battleship is sunk by British fleet, off Saint Nazaire, France.
German battleship Bismarck in sea near Saint-Nazaire, France. Views on British warship of lower deck, bombs are lifted by means of hoist. Guns aboard British warship are fired. Views of burning ship Bismarck in ocean in distance, explosion on Bismarck can be seen. British naval observers on bridge of ship. Views of German wounded sailors recovered from Bismarck being carried up gangway after having been rescued at sea. British aircraft carrier 'Victorious', biplane aircraft Fairey Swordfish torpedo bomber on the deck of British aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal (91). British battleship at dock, two British Navy Officers shake hands. British sailors raise their hands and salute. Views of battleships. Sailors on board HMS Ark Royal raise a plaque celebrating the defeat of the Bismarck, above a Sebastopol 1854 plaque. (World War II period). Location: Saint-Nazaire France. Date: May 27, 1941.
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British jet "Fairey Delta 2" breaks speed record of 1,000 mph in flight over England