Double ejectee

[Town]

If this is not in the right place mods please feel free to move it.

We received an order for a copy of the Sea Vixen yesterday by a chap living in Australia, and in his comment section he added the paragraph below.

For the record I am an ex Sea Vixen double ejectee, first ejected from XN710 with David Dunbar Dempsey,890 Squadron,Ark Royal,East Malayan Coast 29 Aug 1963. Second ejection with Lt Chris Hunneyball. Sea Vixen XS586 straight off the catapult of Victorious,893 Squadron, 5 Aug 1966. Think I'll be safe with your product though I am very impressed having seen the promo.... To my knowledge no-one else survived two jumps from the FAA widowmaker.

Just a little bit of general interest I thought you chaps might enjoy.

Gordon

[Garry Russell]

Cheers Gordon

Always nice to here real life experiences from those involved

Garry

[airboatr]

wow .. I would have never thought they even had a name for it.....
well , I hope it will bring back all the good memories he had in the vixen

Cheers to that man!

Joe

[airbee]

I had no idea the Sea Vixen had the reputation of being a Widowmaker in the FAA. Apart from Mr De Havilland I didnt think it had any other than a fairly normal service run....?

[Harry Basset]

There is a web site dedicated to the Sea Vixen and crews.
http://www.seavixen.org It makes sobering reading.

[Hot_Charlie]

Ejection History (.org.uk) certainly concurs that (S/Lt, later Lt WH) banged out twice. What rotten luck!

[DaveB]

Rotten luck indeed HC!! :o

Tks for passing that on Gordon ;-)

ATB

DaveB :tab:

[Garry Russell]

Rotten luck to be in a situation..... but good luck to have the bang seat :think:

Garry

[TSR2]

Good old Mr. Baker. Intresting to read how high the failure rates were in the Sea Vixen. A real tragety for all those who were affected. :-(

[airboatr]

thank goodness you guys built him a good reliable Modle
he won't have to worry about that anymore.... ;-)




.... can we have another screenie contest?? :-(