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 implodi... 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...!

Ted Barrett from Scarborough, Canada 

Posted at 4:00pm on Friday, January 9th, 2009

I just came across this site and now have just about everything a need for building my 1/32 Sea Vixen vac. Great job and keep up the good work!!

Ed Tharp from Arizona, USA 

Posted at 5:24pm on Sunday, August 24th, 2008

Your pics a great help to model builder.I hope that I live long enough to see a 1/48 scale quality kit of the Sea Vixen come to be. I'll have to be satisfies with the 1/72 Frog kit in the meantime. A magnificent machine,one of my faves. Thanx again !

Richard Chatterton from Hampshire 

Posted at 7:11pm on Monday, July 7th, 2008

Saw her at Yeovilton yesterday - a real treat!

John Rieley from Sussex 

Posted at 9:54am on Monday, July 7th, 2008

Just what I needed as I am trying to build a Sea Vixen model

Steven Perriss from Kings Lynn 

Posted at 3:02pm on Sunday, July 6th, 2008

Fantastic shots , your more than welcome to come back anytime :)