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The Blackburn B-24 Skua was a carrier-based low-wing, two-seater, single-radial engine aircraft by the British aviation company Blackburn Aircraft.It was the first Royal Navy carrier-borne all-metal cantilever monoplane aircraft, as well as the first dive bomber in Fleet Air Arm (FAA) service. [2]
Sqn. Cdr. E. H. Dunning makes the first landing of an aircraft on a moving ship, a Sopwith Pup on HMS Furious, August 2, 1917.. This List of carrier-based aircraft covers fixed-wing aircraft designed for aircraft carrier flight deck operation and excludes aircraft intended for use from seaplane tenders, submarines and dirigibles.
Brown, Eric; William Green and Gordon Swanborough. "Blackburn Skua and Roc." Wings of the Navy, Flying Allied Carrier Aircraft of World War Two. London: Jane's Publishing Company, 1980, pp. 29–40. ISBN 0-7106-0002-X. Buttler, Tony (2004), British Secret Projects: Fighters & Bombers 1935-1950, Hinckley: Midland Publishing, ISBN 1857801792
Carrier-borne version of the Gladiator fitted with an arrestor hook. One of the two FAA fighters of World War II in service at the beginning alongside the Blackburn Skua. [1] [2] Blackburn Skua The Skua was a fighter and a dive bomber; one of two fighter aircraft in the FAA at the onset of war, alongside the Gloster Sea Gladiator.
770 Naval Air Squadron formed at RNAS Lee-on-Solent (HMS Daedalus), Hampshire, on 7 November 1939 as a Deck Landing Training squadron.It was initially equipped with two Blackburn Skua, a British two-seat carrier-based dive bomber and fighter aircraft, two Gloster Sea Gladiator, a British biplane fighter aircraft, a de Havilland Moth, a two-seat biplane trainer aircraft and later on two Fairey ...
Pages in category "Carrier-based aircraft" ... Blackburn Roc; Blackburn Shark; Blackburn Skua; Blackburn Sprat; Boeing EA-18G Growler; Boeing F/A-18E/F Super Hornet;
One year on, in March 1942, the squadron started using Blackburn Skua, a carrier-based dive bomber/fighter aircraft and Gloster Sea Gladiator single-seat fighter biplane aircraft, fitted with arrestor hooks, and these were followed by Fairey Swordfish biplane torpedo bomber aircraft in the April.
It was initially equipped with nine Blackburn Skua carrier-based dive bomber / fighter aircraft, five Blackburn Roc carrier-based fighter aircraft and four Gloster Sea Gladiator biplane fighter aircraft. [5] On the 1 December 1939, the squadron absorbed 769 Naval Air Squadron and became the Fleet Fighter School. [3]