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[hairy]

Anyone else getting the very cheesey Barak Obama banner at the top of each page?

Someone should tell him of the forums no-politics policy.

[smithy]

Yup getting it here. The worrying thing is that the elections are still 10 months away. So there's another 300 odd days of this rigmarole to go through!

[sniff]

Lets Barack for Obama, and...

...give John the Key!

I'll go to bed now..... g'night...

[lumpy]

I liked the bumper sticker that said " Vote for Monica Lewinski's ex boyfriend's wife - for president " ;D

[flyjoe180]

Just be thankful NZ politicians can't afford such advertisements! Imagine logging on and seeing HC there.

[stu]

enough said .....

[yak2]

Hey......that's an X ray of my sisters head!!!

[FlyNavy]

;D Before or after she gives you a smack/slap? ;D

[yak2]

She's too busy drinking soy lattes, hugging trees and listening to Radio National to bother.
On a serious note FN, do you have the crew details of a Gannet that went over the side of the Melbourne while on a training exercise (I think) late 60's and in South China Sea area.
Rob

[FlyNavy]

Yak2:
Because you are such a busy person. ;D Probably avoiding slaps upside your head as we speak, I'll go check the www.adf-serials.com website and then check if I have any linebook pages relevant to that accident. A 700Mb PDF about "other" RAN aircraft (mostly fixed wing) and NOT A4G Skyhawks is available at FileFront. It has a section about the Gannet.

files.filefront.com/Other+RAN+aircraftpdf/;9454139;/fileinfo.html

There is an older file further down the page which does not have the same amount of information in general but it has some according to the file size and date: (only firtysix MegaBites)

files.filefront.com/RAN+Fairey+Gannetpdf/;8106743;/fileinfo.html

Every now and then these individual aircraft PDF files might be updated. I'll let you know what I find out in another post here.
Phil.

[FlyNavy]

Three ditchings below of Gannets from HMAS Melbourne are the only ones I could see in a quick squizz of the list. Other ditchings were noted to be in Australian waters. Not clear if other information can be found if that info regarding ditching position is not already on www.adf-serials.com Please pick a candidate. You can see you need to provide more information to narrow down the accident.

Also one or two 'went over the side' in the sense that they had some kind of 'odd' arrested landing. So you need to clarify if "over the side" to you means in fact "ditching". Thanks.

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816 Sqn,Fatal ditched 23/03/65 off HMAS Melbourne.A/Sblt(P) G.Hutchinson RAN LT(O) Bessel-Browne & LAUC K.Ryan. Aircraft on landing on HMAS Melbourne caught number 4 wire, hook broke and A/C trickled off angled flight deck and went into sea. Pilot lost remainder of crew safe.

Ditched 25/04/63 816 Sqdn S/Blt(P) Dennett RAN. Port engine exploded after catapault launch from HMAS Melbourne.Aircraft ditched and crew rescued unhurt.

817 Sqn. 1/11/56 made the first live Mk 30 torpedo drop in the RAN near Manus Island whilst being flown by LCDR(P) Gledhill,LEUT(O) Palmer & SBLT(O) Selsmak RAN. Damaged 27/08/59. 816 Sqn. Ditched 16/03/63, off HMAS Melbourne near Manus Island. Flight control lost after engine relight.Crew LT(P) J Smith RAN LT(O)I.Lawson & Observer P.Hancox rescued & returned to HMAS Melbhourne.

[yak2]

Much appreciated FN. 23/03/65 is the one I am interested in. Will now get off my backside and have a trawl thru the sites you suggest.
Rob

[FlyNavy]

Geez, I just did something stupid. Typed out a bunch of stuff about what I know particularly about the accident you are interested to know more about; then lost it by looking for Yak2 e-mail. How about you PM me Yak2 so we can exchange e-mail addresses otherwise the thread is taken over by Gannet stuff.

Don't bother with any URLs given earlier because the information is not there. Only the text info you see above. Private e-mail can sort out the rest.

[FlyNavy]

This is a newspaper cutting (badly aged and photocopied before it got to me):






I guess you have gone elsewhere so briefly for yak2's benefit (because I'm offline for a bit) I'll state that Sblt Errol Kavanagh is on the left and Sblt John Hutchinson is on the right. Errol was my A4G instructor at Nowra. After he died in a MiG15 crash at Canberra in early 90s some of his photos were eventually scanned some years back. I'll say more from conversations with Errol way back in early 70s about the Gannet crash in a private e-mail to yak2.

[yak2]

Thanks FN. And what an amazing coincidence.
Rob

[hairy]

I seen threads go off topic before, but this must take the cake for the biggest step sideways off topic. ;D

The banners gone now anyway.

[FlyNavy]

Must have been the NAVY FAA wot did it guv. (Got rid of Barracker O'Balmy). ;D

[flycookie]

This is the only pic I could find of the Errol Kavanagh Memorial Oval, in Canberra.



And Senor Hairy, in keeping with the off-threadedness of this thread, I hereby state, affirm and attest my admiration for your bar technique. I hope the brunette on your left was impressed.



Now we all know Whatyorlookinat!!