de Havilland Sea Vixen
The sole airworthy de Havilland Sea Vixen, XP 924, civil reg. G-VIXN, was successfully flown from it's base at Swansea to Bournemouth International, yesterday.
It will be based at Bournemouth Aviation Museum,previously site of Jet Heritage,where it will be prepared and fully certified for Airshow appearances this summer(what summer?)
The guys at De Havilland Aviation, the owners of the Vixen, have done a fantastic job keeping the aircraft in an airworthy state, and should receive all our support to get her on the Airshow circuit.I would be interested to hear experiences of any ex-Sea Vixen pilots: judging by the nose high landing flare yesterday it cannot have been a bundle of laughs to fly onto carriers?
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