Originally Posted by
pax britanica
........I believe some types like Seahawk and Sea Vixen were very deadly.....
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For the period 1951 to 1962 Seahawks crashed /written off - 93
For the period 1958 to 1970 Sea Vixens crashed./wriiten off - 52
One type of training during the 1950s that sounds highly dangerous was night aerobatics.
An instructor based at Cranwell, flying Vampires, recalls "
that night aerobatics were a feature of the training syllabus of those days.....in their final night test the cadets would strive to outdo one another.....as a flight commander I spent many a final night test being alternatively blacked out and/or terrified by some of their efforts....."