Bad news for the Sea Vixen

[Olicat]

This afternoon the Sea Vixen went for a test flight (first of 2012 i believe) , upon arrival back at Hurn the nose gear collapsed.The pilot got out and is ok.

Bournemouth Airport closed for the next 2 hours though.

[Minty4371]

Oops . Hope the damage isn't great, and it is flying again soon. Glad the pilot is OK.

[Olicat]

Apparently the left gear collapsed, but it had droptanks and skidded to a halt on them which could have saved the aircraft. We'll see what happens.

[Mayfly]

Thats a shame - good the crew were unhurt, can you see it Oli?

[Bovril]

[Olicat]

Thats a shame - good the crew were unhurt, can you see it Oli?

Funny you should mention that, I was supposed to be going to watch it but I thought 'nah the weathers rubbish, it won't fly'

From that pic it looks like the Drop tanks took most of the impact, which I suppose is a good thing since the fuselage will be less damaged.

[Jigsaw]

Bad luck for a lovely aircraft Glad the crew are ok though.

[Gaz]

Bugger!!

Could have been much worse though!

[Hihonyr8811]

Blimey, I'm glad no one was hurt!!

I hope it wasn't damaged too much and it's up and flying again in the not too distant future

[Hydealfred]

Such a shame as always great to see the Vixen on the airshow circuit.

[Ducati Boy]

Hope they can afford to fix it before the season starts.

[Hihonyr8811]

Don't know where this came from, only that I got it from https://twitter.com/#!/An2Club make of it what you will.

[Mayfly]

A little more in depth annalisis of the repairs required from PK


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