Fly'in Fish

[Jack Cook]

Fairy Albacores in flight 1942

[The Inspector]

" do you smell tuna?"

[JDK]

Nice on Jack, of an often overlooked torpedo bomber.

This shot by the great Charles E Brown. Note the Blackburn Roc trailing.

[JDK]

The Albacore was extinct as a type until one was reconstructed from remains with a lot of scratchbuilding, and delivered to the Fleet Air Arm Museum, Yeovilton.







No, it's not airworthy, not is there ever likely to be one fly again - at least we have one, remarkably accurate looking, preserved for future generations.

[visaliaaviation]

Hence the the non-complimentary term I first heard it when I brought a very sad looking Tri-Pacer project home. When he first saw it, I asked my buddy what he thought? " British BeautifuLL!" said it all.