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Gannet
1949
Carrier-borne anti-submarine warfare and airborne Early Warning aircraft of the immediate post Second World War-era developed for the Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm. It has a conventional monoplane mid-wing and tricycle undercarriage. The pilot sits over the gas turbine engine atop the fuselage and behind the double, co-axial, contra-rotating propellors; the one (or two) crew sit in additional cockpit stations behind the pilot. The second crew member sat in a separate fuselage "bubble" facing the tail. Fairey decided to install an engine plant based on the Armstrong Siddeley Mamba. A Double Mamba (also commonly called the "Twin Mamba") was selected, driving two countra-rotating propellors through a common gearbox.
There were 348 built.