Sunday 13 July 2014

de Havilland Sea Vixen, first high speed taxi run of the 2014 season in HD







Back in April and with the 2014 air display season just a few weeks away, the worlds only remaining airworthy DeHavilland Sea Vixen G-CVIX fired up its Rolls-Royce Avon engines for a fast..ish ground run on runway 08 at Bournemouth airport.
G-CVIX was under the control of Brian Grant, one of the worlds most experience fast jet pilots, with over 15,000 hrs in his log book, and over 9,000hrs as an instructor. (GoPro flying vid, posted here via youtube's standard embed code, a single click to view here..)