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Aviation History
1947
1947 - 0116.PDF
In front view the Firefly Trainer di operational counterpart in having c It will be gathered from this view structor's view from the rear cock\ adequate. Mr. Peter Twiss presents the Tra view. Mr. Duncan Menzies right) talks Mr. Twiss. 4. SINCE the Fairey Firefly Trainer was introduced lastSeptember there has been a tendency to regard itprimarily as an instructional aircraft for Firefly pilots. Had a different, if less convenient, name been chosen—'' Fairey Operational Trainer '' for instance—this mistaken impression might never have arisen. The machine has, infact, been developed to familiarize prospective pilots of any type of single-engined high-powered military aircraft with flying characteristics common to this class (e.g., a tendencyto swing under certain conditions) and with the use of re- presentative armament. Its intended applications may besummarized as advanced flying training, instrument-flying training, air-to-air combat, ground attack and deck-land-ing training. The new Flight pictures on these pages show the FireflyTrainer, bearing Service markings, after its return from a tour of British and Continental stations with. Mr. DuncanMenzies, one-time Fairey test pilot and now in charge of service and liaison, as pilot. When the photographs weretaken it was flown by Lt. Peter Twiss, D.S.C. The sequence of comparative side views is included toshow how the Trainer is related to the operational Firefly fighter-reconnaissance aircraft, which in turn can trace theirancestry through the Fulmar back to the P.4/34 light
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