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Old 25th Apr 2022, 13:00
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Brewster Buffalo
 
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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....."
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