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.
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.
Fighter from 1950's... still better then F-35. :D
ReplyDeleteSorry America but you just can't make planes as beautiful as the British did...
ReplyDeleteHow embarrassing for both the Brits and the JSF home office.
ReplyDeleteThe Brits have been reduced from building their own world class aircraft to buying crappy, overpriced American hardware.
And the JSF crew can't even provide an aircraft capable of a simple flyby.
To be fair while there was European input to the EF-2000 Typhoon programme it is about as British as the F-35 is American, but we couldn't convince the Germans and Italians to buy it or fund it if they couldn't claim that it was partially theirs. The Typhoon is a first rate fighter, up there with the F-22 and the T-50, if we can build a plane like that I really don't get why we went out and bought the F-35.
DeleteWe should have gone ahead with the P.1216, Brilliant plane
http://warships1discussionboards.yuku.com/topic/1172/Hawker-P-1216#.U7SBNPldWqg
Ah the Sea Vixen. Great looking bird. It used to do the Air Show circuit painted in Red Bull livery. Not exactly authentic but it looked good.
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