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De Havilland DH-120 Vixliner

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November 04, 2023, 05:53:32 AM
De Havilland DH-120 Vixliner



When in the middle of the 1950s the De Havilland Sea Vixen was flying, the design team at De Havilland started thinking about a transport derivative of the design. They planned to create a fast executive transport for the high end of the market. The new aircraft was designated DH-120 and soon the name Vixliner was chosen.



The DH-120 used the wings, tail and engine section of the Sea Vixen and married that to a new front fuselage which seated 7 to 15 passengers depending on the seating arrangement.



The aircraft first flew in 1959 and test flight progressed rather rapidly. Unlike the Sea Vixen the Vixliner was not supersonic, attaining a maximum speed of 975 km/h in level flight. However the fuel consumption was rather high which limited the range of the aircraft 10 arounf 1800km.



This limited range, the high fuel consumption and the rather high price led to little interest from the market and in 1965, it was decided to stop further development of the DH-120. De Havilland shifted its focus to the DH-125 which showed much more potential.





Model: Revell Sea Vixen & A-Model HFB-320 1/72

TomZ
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Steel Penguin

#1
November 04, 2023, 06:34:20 AM
that is a very good looking airframe  :thumbsup:
very sleek and still rather futuristic.
the things you learn, give your mind the wings to fly, and the chains to hold yourself steady
take off and nuke the site form orbit, nope, time for the real thing, CAM and gridfire, call special circumstances. 
wow, its like freefalling into the Geofront
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PR19_Kit

#2
November 04, 2023, 06:53:07 AM
What a wonderful looking machine Tom, excellent work, both on the idea itself and the build!

I KNEW I'd seen that cockpit somewhere as soon as I saw the first pic, but couldn't bring it to mind before reading about it.  :thumbsup:

A twin-Avon powered biz-jet would tend to be a bit heavy on fuel for sure!  :o
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Old Wombat

#3
November 04, 2023, 08:44:43 AM
Not only good lookin' but oddly plausible! :thumbsup:  :thumbsup:
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chrisonord

#5
November 04, 2023, 09:17:15 AM
That is absolutely brilliant :wub:
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Pee on it and walk away!!

Rheged

#6
November 04, 2023, 09:51:57 AM
Tomz, I'm currently working on a whiff-augmented history of the DH Sea Vixen.   Please may I incorporate this previously unknown variant in the finished article?
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ericr

#7
November 04, 2023, 10:56:43 AM
 :thumbsup:  :thumbsup:  :thumbsup:

very elegant (the Vixen way)

uncletain

#8
November 04, 2023, 11:29:15 AM
That's great  :thumbsup:  :thumbsup:
Very elegant

TomZ

#9
November 04, 2023, 12:10:23 PM
Quote from: Rheged on November 04, 2023, 09:51:57 AMTomz, I'm currently working on a whiff-augmented history of the DH Sea Vixen.   Please may I incorporate this previously unknown variant in the finished article?

Of course! No history of the Sea Vixen is complete without the famed VixLiner!
Incorporate away!

TomZ
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Rick Lowe

#10
November 04, 2023, 12:18:52 PM
Very nice! Well done. :thumbsup:  :thumbsup:

kitbasher

#11
November 04, 2023, 12:45:20 PM
Yay!  Fantastic build.  Sea Vixen version of the Mystery Jet (https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/jet-craft-and-other-dh-vampire-executive-jet-projects.1936/).
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loupgarou

#12
November 04, 2023, 01:46:58 PM
A beautiful aircraft indeed!
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dwomby

#13
November 04, 2023, 04:47:07 PM
What a great idea and really well executed.

David

Wardukw

#14
November 04, 2023, 09:15:14 PM
Tom mate not only have you knocked the ball clean into the next county but it also ricocheted of a rubbish bin and took out a parking warden .

Ironman would be proud to have this for certain  ;D
Absolute perfection 🥰
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