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Sea Vixen, Buccaneer

Sea Vixen, Buccaneer

A Royal Navy de Havilland Sea Vixen and a Royal Navy Blackburn Buccaneer prepare to fuel from an RAF Victor

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Aircraft shown are as follows;

* Sea Vixen FAW.2 703/XN 685 of NAS 890. This aircraft is preserved at the The Midland Air Museum just outside the village of Baginton in Warwickshire

* Buccaneer (XN975?) trials aircraft. If it is XN975, it was originally ordered as S.Mk.1, re-ordered as S.Mk.2. First flown 30/06/1964. Crashed in 1978 at Oelde near Bruggen in West Germany after a near miss with a civilian helicopter.

* Handley Page Victor K1 (XA918) was a prototype three-point refuelling aircraft.

Taken during trials at A&AEE Boscombe Down.
 

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