Most of these closeup pictures are of the Midland Air Museum's Sea Vixen FAW.2 XN685 and FAW.2 XJ494 at the Phoenix Air Museum. I'd like to express my appreciation to Barry James at the Midland Air Museum and Dave Thomas, Matthew Wainwright and Steven Perriss at the Phoenix Air Museum for allowing such good access to their aircraft.
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Terry Lomax from Rep of Ireland
Posted at 4:22pm on Tuesday, July 3rd, 2012
My I ask a question of Ted Barret from Scarborough, Canada. (Jan.9th 09) I worked on Sea Vixens in the 70s(Royal Navy), would really like a 1/32 scale Sea Vixen, do you ,or anyone else know if this kit is available in UK or on the internet
Pete Kitchin from Australia
Posted at 12:12pm on Friday, April 6th, 2012
My da was a navigator with numerious squadrens.Mr Mike Mac Cookwier and my dad were the first to do 2000 deck landings.
Unfortunatly my dad passed away march last year.I enjoyed being a small boy and hanging around this fantastic aeroplane and it's crews
Len Newman from Cornwall
Posted at 8:29pm on Monday, February 6th, 2012
Great site for reference my Dad worked in the DH development Leavesden & Hatfield. So love the aircraft & modelling the Airfix 1/48 & Ciberhobby 1/72 kits so great for colour schemes.
Gregg Bender from Charles Town, WV
Posted at 2:10am on Sunday, November 20th, 2011
Invaluable photographs for the model building community! Never saw one in real life, but it's such a striking design that it's one of my all time favorites.
Thanks for the work you put into this site!
Alan Currie from uk
Posted at 9:50pm on Wednesday, May 25th, 2011
great site building airfix sea vixen great help for colours etc.
Jim Raynor from Lincolnshire
Posted at 7:17pm on Thursday, May 5th, 2011
What an amazing site ! as many others have also commented this will be invaluable to me whilst building my 1/48 airfix Sea Vixen
and correcting some of the minor issues ,your photos are large and clear enough to supercede many other sites on the web ,keep up the amazing work ...
Bill Harrington from USA
Posted at 8:02pm on Sunday, February 13th, 2011
building 1/48 AIRFIX seavixon-this was big help on colors & interior color.never trust what is stated on kit instructions
Richard Sign from Southampton
Posted at 1:48pm on Friday, March 19th, 2010
I was a designer at de Havilland Christchurch and Hatfield from 1956-1966 working on the mk1 and mk2 Sea Vixen (plus other aircraft) I was involved in the design and testing of escape systems i.e. ejection seats,pilot's canopy & observer's hatch and carried out ejection tests at Boscombe Down and Glen Fruin. The original canopy was framed and then redesigned for through canopy ejection. The observer's hatch was redesigned as frangible. the underwater escape systems followed with the provision of the imp... read more »read more »
Craig Murray from Australia
Posted at 1:11am on Friday, April 10th, 2009
I came across this wonderful site while building my 1/48 Falcon Vacform Supermarine Swift and thewalkaround shots were pure gold for modelling reference, I then looked up the Sea Vixen and I can now start my Dynavector Vacform with as I can niw add all the details I want in full. Congratulations on a wonderful site which I will be continually patronising for some time to come.
Once again I thank you for your efforts.
Regards
Craig
Gregg Bender from Charles Town, West Virginia
Posted at 1:24am on Monday, January 19th, 2009
Just cracked into the first of two XtraKit FAW2 Sea Vixens and just found this site. OUTSTANDING reference pix! I fell for the Sea Vixen when I first saw a picture of one as a kid back in the 1960's. About time we got a decent kit of it! I'm already planning on turning my second kit into an FAW Mk.1...!