Shearwater A. M. Fairey Firefly

Triplane102 · **Joined:** Wed Oct 15, 2014 12:55 pm **Posts:** 491

I noticed in a recent video from the Shearwater Aviation Museum, that there is a shot of the ALREADY painted Firefly, sitting on Both gear, the chin cowl unpainted, & the outer wings off. does this mean that they have been doing some work to undo the damage from it's taxi accident ? geek

Thomas_Mac · **Posted:** Wed Dec 19, 2018 5:12 pm

I recall reading after the incident they didn't want folks taking pictures of the Firefly (understandably). When I was out in Nova Scotia on my honeymoon in October I saw no such notice so I took this one.

Triplane102 · **Joined:** Wed Oct 15, 2014 12:55 pm **Posts:** 491

Thanks Thomas_Mac, Looks purrty much like what I saw in the Vid. Sure looks like it's going to be a decent Static !

avenger2504 · **Posted:** Fri Dec 21, 2018 9:50 pm

Taxi? Take off gone wrong wasn't it?

phil65 · **Posted:** Fri Dec 21, 2018 10:50 pm

Thomas_Mac wrote:

I recall reading after the incident they didn't want folks taking pictures of the Firefly (understandably). When I was out in Nova Scotia on my honeymoon in October I saw no such notice so I took this one.

You got to go to a restoration hangar on your honeymoon... :drink3:

Phil

Dave Hadfield · **Joined:** Sun Sep 17, 2006 10:31 pm **Posts:** 1672

I believe it was a high-speed taxi test that went bad.

Apologies to the pilot if I got that wrong.

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