Martlet - Sweat Shirt Space Shuttle Saab J35 Draken

Saab J35 Draken

Six Sea Hawk squadrons took part

McDonnell Douglas F-4K (FG1) Phantom

Army in 1986 as an attack helicopter

The name was simplified to Gloster Aircraft then merged with the Hawker Siddeley Group

Martlet - Sweat Shirt Space Shuttle Saab J35 DrakenGrumman F4F Wildcat Martlet The Fleet Air Arm bought the Wildcat before it was used by the US Navy, was renamed as the Martlet and replaced the Fairey Fulmar. Christmas day 1940 a Martlet shot down a Junkers Ju88 over Scapa Flow which was the first combat victory by a US built fighter in British service in World War II. Eric M 'Winkle' Brown flew the Wildcat Martlet and commented that, "this Grumman fighter was one of the finest shipboard aeroplanes