Wednesday, July 02, 2014

Blast from the past. de Havilland Sea Vixen

via Royal Navy Website....
An historic Royal Navy 1950s fighter, the de Havilland Sea Vixen, will join the fly past over the Royal Navy’s new aircraft carrier, HMS Queen Elizabeth, at the official naming ceremony by Her Majesty The Queen in Rosyth, Scotland on Friday 4 July 2014
Sea Vixen FAW2 (Fighter All Weather) G-CVIX XP924, painted in the colours of 899 Naval Air Squadron from HMS Eagle in 1971, is the last and only flying Sea Vixen in the world.  Read more about it here.

NOTE:  This is the plane that is replacing the F-35 at the Queen Elizabeth Aircraft Carrier fly over event.