de Havilland DH.110 Sea Vixen

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speedyundeadhittite@reddit

Seen it flying in Duxford, early 00s... What a plane, loved it.

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The_Demolition_Man@reddit

Man, the Brits had some of the most aesthetic early jet age planes there ever were. This and the V planes come to mind.

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Zebidee@reddit

The Victor is straight up out of a Flash Gordon comic.

When the UK entered WWII they still had a handful of biplanes in front line service. Imagine explaining to those pilots that in 13 years they'd be flying basically a UFO.

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Dipshitmagnet2@reddit

Beautiful jet but wasn’t it bloody dangerous to fly?

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Corvid187@reddit

The victor? Not particularly, at least by the standards of the time.

Operationally it would have been likely very costly, but that was true for all strategic bombers.

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Dipshitmagnet2@reddit

My bad. I was talking about the Sea Vixon but replied to a comment about V bomber.

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Corvid187@reddit

Ah sorry!

Yeah, sea vixen was relatively dangerous, but that goes for pretty much all carrier aviation in this period TBF.

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listen3times@reddit

It's not weird, it's beautiful.

Unless you were the radar operator

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Rooilia@reddit

My feeling says, they employed a B&V engineer for the final touch.

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Punkpunker@reddit

B&V would definitely place the Radar operator on one of the tail booms.

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CardOk755@reddit

B&V would figure out how to have a version with one tail boom.

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There was no skylight in operational jets, the hatch was deliberately opaque so the nav could see the radar display without sunlight interfering. I think they got a teeny tiny porthole at the side to stop them feeling too bad, although it was a notoriously miserable experience.

The photo shows an aircraft used for air shows where they make the hatch transparent because they can.

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Nordicberserk@reddit

I'm pretty sure I've heard somewhere that they did the skylight because it was such a claustrophobic space. So they updated it with said window.

I may be wrong

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Hamsternoir@reddit

The good old coal hole.

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Bortron86@reddit

Or someone who'd been to that airshow.

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Allaplgy@reddit

I was gonna say "That's a damn fine looking aircraft."

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CardOk755@reddit

Asymmetrical planes are always fun. Get those blohm und Voss vibes going.

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cromstantinople@reddit

That thing is awesome!

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ScholarErrant@reddit

I’ve already resolved that, if I ever win a huge lottery, my one big, extravagant purchase is to get one of the surviving ones and get it back in the air. One of the two most beautiful planes ever made.

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