Meeting - Noel Dennett: BKK to LHR by B747

Guest Speaker - Noel Dennett - Qantas B747 Pilot - BKK to LHR by 747

Who is Noel Dennett?

Retired commercial and navy pilot Noel Dennett has been flying since he was 17 and still takes to the air as an 86 year-old in a plane he affectionately calls a ‘bug smasher’. The single engine aircraft doesn’t look small to me but unlike Dennett, I haven’t spent my life flying jumbo jets and fighter planes.

He pulls out his phone and shows me a photo of a Fairey Gannet, a British aircraft with distinctive foldable wings that was popular in the post-Second World War era. It is one of a dozen aircraft at the museum which Dennett has flown.

“I was flying one of these for the Navy when the plane blew an engine as the catapult fired. I ended up bobbing around in the ocean about a kilometre in front of the aircraft carrier. That was enough excitement for one day,” he says with a wry smile.

(Ref. - https://tellmewhere2go.com/meet-the-aviation-legends-at-queensland-air-museum/

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