This week ending 31 Mar 19 has been a quieter week, with our main activities focusing on finalizing the last short term moves of the Sea Fury, Trackers and C47 out of the Albatross Aviation Technology Park secure storage offered by our major sponsor Air Affairs, AND on completing the […]
Grumman
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The HARS Navy Heritage Flight’s Grumman Tracker 844 has regular engine runs to keep it in pristine condition. Here’s a picture and a video of the latest (February 2019) engine run test. Enjoy.
The concept for the Grumman Tracker started as a design called the G-89. The G-89 proposal called for a twin engine aircraft capable of carrying weapons, sonobouys, and other submarine detection equipment, such as a Magnetic Anomaly Detector (MAD) and search radar all from a carrier flight deck. The United States Navy offered Grumman […]