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PICTURES - FUSELAGE

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This page last updated on 29th February 2004

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NOSE AND INTAKES

  1. Radar on XJ481, the RNAY Fleetlands Air Museum's FAW.1 (since moved to Yeovilton).
  2. Another view of XJ481's radar.
  3. Yet another view of the radar, this time the one on the Wellesbourne Wartime Museum's FAW.2 nose, XJ575.
  4. General view of XS590 (131/E), showing the observer's ladder.
  5. General view of XN685 at the Midland Air Museum.
  6. Observer's window and hatch. The black circle to the left of the ejection seat triangle is a ladder attachment point. Note the hatch handle, the frame line across the window and the small strake in front of the intake fairing. You can't see anything of the observer's cockpit because the anti-flash curtain is down.
  7. Looking into the intake. The starboard engine is just about visible, and note that there is a very thin boundary layer intake. Also note the small intake below (for engine or jetpipe cooling?), which is at the front of a fairing that runs quite a long way back.
  8. Closer view of the intake taken from a little further starboard. You can see the width of the two vanes, plus the boundary layer intake. Engine and lower intake also visible.
  9. Looking straight into the intake. Intake interiors are a metallic dirty white colour, becoming natural metal further in. Engine cone is polished metal, the pipe leading away from it is dull metal, the turbine blades are gunmetal.
  10. Closer view of that small intake.
  11. Starboard nose.
  12. Port intake of Duxford's FAW.2, XS576. As you can see it is not a mirror image of the starboard side. The engines are actually interchangeable, so the pipe coming away from the compressor cone always goes to port, not towards the center of the fuselage.

ENGINES AND TAIL

  1. XS590's Emergency ram-air turbine and upper rear fuselage. Very nice of the FAA Museum to have it popped out like this!
  2. Looking forward. Good view of the exhaust blanking plates and the camouflage demarcation line. This appears to differ on individual Sea Vixens - several have this entire tail end part in extra dark sea grey (including the one at the Fleet Air Arm museum and the previous example at the Midland Air Museum). Aerial on the port tail boom and wing props also evident.
  3. Similar view, but further back, showing wing angles when folded and the distinct step between the enlarged tail booms and the original tail boom.
  4. Port jet pipe with blanking plate removed.
  5. Port jet pipe, somewhat closer... the spikes inside the jet pipe are temperature probes.
  6. Starboard jet pipe of XS590, showing how the probes go right through the jet pipe and once outside they become much larger than the portion within the exhaust flow, and then have an oval airfoil shaped cross-section.
  7. Starboard tail of XS590. Shows the positioning of the ROYAL NAVY titles and 899 NAS' winged fist logo. Just beneath the R in ROYAL you may be able to make out (on the full size version) the anchor point stencil; like many other stencils, this is on a lighter grey background. I presume this is because the paintwork faded and when they repainted the aircraft they just masked off small items like stencils entirely. Larger items like the winged fist logo and the RN titling look to have been repainted at the same time as the overall EDSG finish.
  8. Port side of tail, looking to starboard. Note the blunt ends of the all-moving tailplane, and that only the port side has the two lights (top white, bottom blue/green). The all-moving part of the tailplane includes those blunt edges!
  9. Starboard side of tail, looking back and starboard. Camouflage wraparound on tail is evident, as is the tail bumper and the red rudder retainer.
  10. Port side of tail. Note differences in panelling from starboard one. Starboard jet pipe visible in bottom right.
  11. General view.

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