Sea Vixen or Sea Venom?

[kitbasher]

Found this link - http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=1029 - on Britmodeller.  Very interesting - looks like Sea Venoms dressed up to look like Sea Vixens for a Royal Tournament.  1:1 scale whif??

[Maverick]

The naval aircraft I saw there were Sea Vixens, down to being loaded with Firestreaks?

Regards,

Mav

[andrewj]

The naval aircraft I saw there were Sea Vixens, down to being loaded with Firestreaks?

Regards,

Mav

Look again, the're not nearly big enough to be genuine Sea Vixens, Kitbasher is quite correct , the're "Vixettes", Sea venoms converted to lookalikes for the Royal Tournament.

[Thorvic]

Probably used at the School of Aircraft Handling, where pilots and ground crew practice flight deck operations before being let near a carrier.

Good conversions however, have all the Sea Vixen features including loading missiles !

G

[kitnut617]

There was some photos of this Sea Venom/Vixen a couple of years ago in one of the Air-Britain quarterlies I subscribe to.  I'll have to go through them all and see if I can find it again but the text did say they were converted Sea Venoms.

If you look at around the 59 sec to 1min 1 sec, you can actually see that the u/c fold outwards and that the inner pylon crosses the wheelbay.

[lenny100]

as thorvic said they are the school, and were still in use untiull the early 90s as basic aircraft handeling before they were let used on the harriers

[JayBee]

I did think they were a wee bit on the small side

[jcf]

Now that would be something to do with the 1/32nd Matchbox Sea Venom!!   

[Daryl J.]

JCF, my sentiments exactly.   

[kitnut617]

one of my planned projects is to put scaled down Sea Vixen booms and tail on the DH.108 Swallow I have as a 'proof of concept' prototype.

[Maverick]

My bad, very nice replicas then.