Falklands war and the Fairey Gannet

[goofer]

Culdrose Gannet

Perhaps not very informative...but I well remember accompanying the then FO Plymouth (VAdml SAC Cassels) to Culdrose in 1981 when Roger Dimmock was Captain and seeing a Gannet with wings extended and engines running outside a remote hangar.

I recall the Admiral and the Captain musing on the lack of AEW cover for the fleet and the possible use the Gannet might be in extremis. I seem to remember that the conversation was revived in '82, perhaps because FO Plymouth's SOO was an ex-Gannet pilot.

That was around the time when CAMBRIDGE was presumed to be Devonport's point AAW cover, IIRC.

Anybody care to add detail (contradictory or otherwise!)...?

Goofer