This incredible video comes to us from our friend Tbobborap1, who filmed the giant-scale model at an RC event at the Royal Air Force Barkston Heath base in Grantham, Lincolnshire, England. Our mystery plane is of late WW II vintage, was carrier-based and flew for the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia. It was especially prized as a submarine-hunter. Make your guess in the comments section, then watch the video of this outstanding scale model in flight. Kudos to the builder and pilot, who as of this writing have not been identified.
Can you name this plane?
Fairey Firefly
Fairey Firfly
Fairey Firefly
Fairey Fulmar
Fairey Firefly
Fairley Firefly FR mk1
Fairey Firefly FR mk1
fairey firefly mk1
Firefly F.Mk I
Fairly Barracuda
Fairey Firefly MK1
Fairey Firefly
Fairey Firefly
Fairey Firefly
This is a Fairey Firefly FR Mk I.
Fairy Firefly http://www.militaryfactory.com/aircraft/detail.asp?aircraft_id=453
The Fairey Firefly was a hugely successful WW2 two seat carrier based fighter aircraft that served with the Royal Fleet Air Arm in the latter stages all the way up to the 1950s. The system was a powerful navy fighter capable of attacking aircraft and seagoing vessels alike. It was highly effective on many fronts including the European and Pacific theatres. The single engine round wing cantilever wing monoplane had about 1,700 aircraft made before ending production. The Navy version was made with a tail hook and folding wings for carrier service.
FAIREY FIREFLY
Fairey firefly
Fairey Firefly
That’s a Fairey Firefly. My father-in-law worked on them on board the HMCS Magnificent of the Royal Canadian Navy.
The Fairey Firefly was a British Second World War-era carrier-borne fighter aircraft and anti-submarine aircraft of the Fleet Air Arm (FAA).
It was superior in performance and firepower to its predecessor, the Fulmar, but only entered operational service towards the end of the war. Designed around the contemporary FAA concept of a two-seat fleet reconnaissance/fighter, the pilot and navigator/weapons officer were housed in separate stations. The design proved to be sturdy, long-ranging and docile in carrier operations, although the limitations of a single engine in a heavy airframe reduced overall performance.
The Fairey Firefly served in the Second World War as a fleet fighter but in postwar service, although it was superseded by more modern jet aircraft, the Firefly was adapted to other roles, including strike operations and anti-submarine warfare, remaining a mainstay of the FAA until the mid-1950s. Both the UK and Australia Fireflies flew ground attack operations off various aircraft carriers in the Korean War. In foreign service, the type was in operation with the naval air arms of Australia, Canada, India, and the Netherlands whose Fireflies carried out a few attack sorties as late as 1962 in Dutch New Guinea.
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Fairy Firefly
Fairey Firefly FR.1 / NF.1
British Tempist
Firefly I / FR.I
Fairey Firefly
Its a Fairy firefly
Fairey firefly
Fairey Firefly Mk I
The author of the video lists it as a fairy firefly on youtube.
Fairey Firefly
It’s the Firefly, I do not recall the numbers.
Fairy Firefly
Fairey Barracuda
fairley firefly
This would be a Fairey-firefly
Fairey firefly
Fairey Firefly, a nice looking model, nice build thanks for sharing.
Boulton-Paul Defiant.
Hawker Typhoon, the British equivalent of the Douglas Skyraider
It’s a Fairey Firefly mk 1.
Fairey Firefly
Fairey Firefly MK.1
Fairy Firefly Mk I
I was remembering that many years ago Dave Platt drew a beautiful 3-view drawing of a later Mk Firefly and commented that it would make an excellent RC warbird because of the generous tail surfaces. I think these were published in MAN, but it may have been RCM.
Fairey Firefly
I worked on Firefly, the summer of 1958, but as a target-tug. I don`t know the MK-number on them, but it was a Lovely plane to work on. // Lennart, Oslo.
It looks like a Fairey Firefly.
It’s a Fiary Firefly Mk i or F.1 or FR.1
Fairey Baracuda
Fairey Firefly
Fairey Firefly
It appears to be a Fairey Firefly
The plane is a Fairey Firefly
Fairey Firefly AS MK 7
Hawker Typhoon
Hawker tempest?
Nope, it is a Fairey Firefly
Fairey Firefly
Fairey Firefly
FAIREY FIREFLY
Boulton Paul defiant….
Firefly…with at least 8 rockets point rearwards ?
Fairey Fulmar
Fairey Firefly
I guess it to be the Fairy Batle
I believe it is a Fairy Battle.