Sea Vixen Does Wheels-Up Emergency Landing at Yeovilton

Was expecting another cloudy hot-tub thread.

Is disappoint.

Well, it does have ejaculation.

Sorry. I meant ejection.

I remember building a Sea Vixen Airfix kit as a kid. Ah memories.

Rather surprised she wasn’t brought in onto the grass, but looking at the photos zoomed in, most of the damage was caused to the underwing drop-tanks, so it looks like relatively light damage to her underside.
Superb landing, though, absolute textbook wheels-up, with luck she can be back in the air before too long.
Superb photos, too.

Apparently the guidelines are for a hard surface landing to prevent digging in and potentially rolling

There is only one Foxy Lady..
[video]https://youtu.be/_PVjcIO4MT4[/video]

CFH we hope the old girl survives that 😐

Foxy Lady was the name of the boat I sailed on in Asia, happy days.

Did someone say Foxy Lady?

Textbook landing on…. the 3rd Stone from the Sun

Exactly what I would have expected – you’re surely taking a much bigger risk with a grass landing.

Pleased to see it wasn’t worse (for the pilot and airframe) and hope she isn’t too hard to fix.

That’s sad one of my favourites at airshows in recent years.

Here she is with wings folded after her display at Yeovilton last year.

[url=https://flic.kr/p/V4RNyH]Sea Vixen[/url] by Freester, on Flickr