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The Magazine of the Society of Friends of the Fleet Air Arm Museum The Magazine of The Society of No. 94 Friends of the Fleet Air Arm Museum February 2019 In this issue • Christmas Lunch Pictures • Visit to Bristol Aerospace Museum • HMS Unicorn - Very Special Carrier • Fleet Air Arm 61 years ago • From the Archive • Book Review - After Jutland Plus all the usual features: Readers’ letters, Snippets from Council meetings, monthly talks programme, Talks Reviews, latest membership numbers etc. The Magazine of The Society of No. 94 Friends of the Fleet Air Arm Museum February 2019 In this issue • Christmas Lunch Pictures • Visit to Bristol Aerospace Museum • HMS Unicorn - Very Special Carrier • Fleet Air Arm 61 years ago • From the Archive • Book Review - After Jutland Plus all the usual features: Readers’ letters, Snippets from Council meetings, monthly talks programme, Talks Reviews, latest membership numbers etc. Jabberwock No 94. February 2019 PROPOSED BLUE : P7461C SOCIETY OF FRIENDS Patron: Rear Admiral A R Rawbone CB, AFC, RN President: Gordon Johnson FLEET AIR ARM MUSEUM RNAS Yeovilton Somerset BA22 8HT Telephone: 01935 840565 SOFFAAM email: [email protected] SOFFAAM website: fleetairarmfriends.org.uk Registered Charity No. 280725 1 Jabberwock No 94. February 2019 The Society of Friends of the Fleet Air Arm Museum Life Vice Presidents Rear Admiral A R Rawbone CB, AFC, RN Admission F C Ott DSC BSc (Econ) Members are admitted to the Museum David Kinloch free of charge, on production of a valid Derek Moxley membership card. Members may be accompanied by up to three guests (one Gerry Sheppard guest only for junior members) on any Bill Reeks one visit, each at a reduced entrance Chairman fee, currently 50% of the standard Graham Mottram price. Members are also allowed a 10% discount on goods purchased from the [email protected] shop. Vice Chairman Ivan Childs Note: These concessions are provided at [email protected] the discretion of the General Manager of the Museum and could be removed at Secretary any time. Malcolm Smith [email protected] Copyright Treasurer Jabberwock is a privately-circulated publication and, in general, we retain Martin Turner copyright in any material that we [email protected] publish, whilst always acknowledging Membership Secretary the original author. From time to time, Robert Heath the Editor may contribute extracts from Jabberwock articles to other commercial 30 Royal Sands publications. If you or your estate wish Weston-Super-Mare. BS23 4NH to retain copyright, kindly make this Mob: 07811 254955 plain at the time of submission. [email protected] Contributions Talks and Events Organiser We are extremely grateful to all those Rosanne Crowther who contribute articles and material 01935 822143 to the magazine, even though it is not [email protected] always possible to use every item! Editor Malcolm Smith T: 01935 478304, Mob: 07765 950806 [email protected] Printed by: Remous Limited, Milborne Port 2 Jabberwock No 94. February 2019 CONTENTS CONTENTS...........................................................3 EDITORIAL............................................................4 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.................................5 SNIPPETS FROM COUNCIL MEETINGS............9 Lynx Wildcat. P 13 MONTHLY TALKS REVIEW................................12 SOFFAAM CHRISTMAS LUNCH.......................20 MEMBERSHIP.....................................................22 MONTHLY TALKS PROGRAMME......................23 VISIT - BRISTOL AEROSPACE MUSEUM........24 HMS UNICORN - VERY SPECIAL CARRIER...25 THE FLEET AIR ARM 61 YEARS AGO.............29 Photographer Ernest Lear. P 20 FROM THE ARCHIVE.........................................33 BOOK REVIEW...................................................38 HMS Unicorn. P 25 Den Wood, Tiger Bristol Boxkite, Moth. P 6 1910. P33 COVER PICTURE A Wildcat helicopter HMA Mk2 of 700(W) Naval Air Squadron conducting flying trials near HMS HMS Bulwark, Monmouth off the South coast of the UKPhoto: PO Indian Ocean, P 29 (Phot) Si Ethell/MoD 3 Jabberwock No 94. February 2019 EDITORIAL e are sad to report the concern that our public profile is not Wdeath of one of our regular attracting new members, so that our contributors, Mr Keith Chadbourn. membership is steadily declining. He joined the Royal Navy in 1954 We will welcome proposals from and qualified as a pilot, spending any of our readers that would halt his operational career in Gannets. this slow decline. You will also He subsequently continued flying as read that this year sees the 75th a test pilot for Westland Helicopters. anniversary of Operation “Tungsten”, He was awarded a Queen’s the first of the FAA’s attacks on the Commendation for Valuable Service battleship Tirpitz in 1944. The next in the Air in the 1989 New Year edition of Jabberwock will be largely Honours. A full obituary by his friend devoted to this anniversary and will and Flight Test Engineer, David include a detailed description of Gibbings, is on our website the Barracuda, the “ugly duckling” aircraft that was used to carry out e provide a list of forthcoming the bombing attacks. Wtalks on page 23, also details of the planned visit to Aerospace n this issue, member Chris Howat Bristol. This will give visitors the Iprovides a colourful glimpse of the chance to step aboard a British Fleet Air Arm 61 years ago, when icon, Concorde Alpha Foxtrot. there were five fixed-wing aircraft Designed, built and tested in Bristol, carriers in commission. His career she was the final Concorde to be spanned the introduction of the built and the last to fly. This will be Wasp helicopter to “small ships” a popular visit, see the application - the designation of frigates and form on page 24. destroyers - and the initial steps towards powerful embarked aviation ur centre-page spread capabilities throughout the fleet, Oillustrates the well-attended which today sees the Lynx Wildcat Christmas Lunch, with thanks to our and the mighty Merlin widely photographer, Ernest Lear. deployed. n “Snippets from Council Meetings” inally, we once again print Ion page 9, you will read that Fa selection of lively letters Council members discussed the from readers. These are always Society’s approach to publicity welcome! and marketing. There is some 4 Jabberwock No 94. February 2019 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Hi Malcolm, The lower wings were reduced in span, the wing tip floats removed Please excuse my penchant for and replaced by lighter angled pedantry … again. In your extract plates (not yet fitted in the photo) from Dacre’s Diary in the latest and the fin slightly reduced in area. Jabberwock you have a photo of As such it became known as the a Short 184 labelled as being at “Cut Short”. Gallipoli. Not so. 8090 did not last long in this form. Short 184, 8090, was used It crashed on 28 March 1917, whilst extensively by the East Indies and operating from HMS Raven, and Egypt Seaplane Squadron (EIESS) was written off. There are some from June 1916 from its Port Said photos of the salvage operation in base. 8090 was never at Gallipoli. Samson’s book Fights and Flights, Moreover, the photo shows it late opposite page 324. The EIESS did a lot more messing about with the long suffering Short 184, but that is another story. I am attaching a more appropriate photo that may be of interest. This was taken during an extended series of trials with torpedoes prior to the successful attacks. For more Short184, complete with torpedo and Dacre on the float, information see my being weighed whilst at Gallipoli. Ben-my-Chree book, Chapter 8. in its career in November 1916 after If my memory serves (I have being modified by the EIESS in an had the photo for many years) it is attempt to improve the performance part of the Jack Bruce/Stuart Leslie of the Short 184. collection, so the 5 Jabberwock No 94. February 2019 Museum should have a copy on Evaluation Squadron and we used file. to get aircraft that were being put through their paces prior to going Cheers front line and at that time we just Ian Burns had the Sea Vampire 20 and Meteor Malcolm Only two things to mention this month: Firstly, on page 12 of Jabberwock 93 the photo of the Caribou is clearly in US Army colours and the USAAF became the USAF in 1947! Secondly, on pages 16 and 17 Martin-Baker’s Meteors are referred to as ‘50 year old’ and ‘50+ year old’. In fact it will be 69 years on 21 November this year since WA638 was delivered to the RAF, and WL419 is not much younger being delivered on 20 August 1952. It didn’t mar my reading Seahawks at RNAS Lossiemouth. Photo by the though, well done. author. Les does not give a date, but probably 1955 or 56 Tony Jupp 7. The Attacker and Scimitar came later. It was rumoured that the Dear Malcolm Attacker was built as a test bed for Just finished reading an old the Nene engine! The aircraft in edition (No.85) of Jabberwock and the picture was to my knowledge would like to make a couple of the Mk1 Fl and were based at Ford observations regarding one or two and were part of HMS Eagle’s CAG of the items. On page 29 there is a but I cannot recall the squadron picture of the Attacker which was number. I have this photo amongst in service about 1952. I joined 702 my collection which has this info on squadron in 1950 which was a Jet the back. 6 Jabberwock No 94. February 2019 The letter from Mr Rowland on left the FAA assembling Hunters page 6 refers to the Flying Tigers for India and Peru but left after of 814. In fact this bit of nostalgia about a year as I couldn’t stand reminded me of when I joined the strikes and disputes. I decided 804 squadron, our CO being to leave, trained as a telegraphist the great Eric (Winkle) Brown.
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