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Posted by 2295wynberglad (U7761102) on Wednesday, 21st October 2009
Please help me settle an argument, I have been talking about the first jet to land on an aircraft carrier. I say Vampire on Eagle in 1952 or 3 my pal says no way Venom in 1959. As we will not give way on this as to who is correct.
Can one of you end this for me. PLEASE.
It was a Vampire, but as early as 1945, on HMS Ocean.
Vampires never went to sea operationally. The first FAA operational jet was the Supermarine Attacker, which went to sea in Eagle in 1951.
LW
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Posted by 2295wynberglad (U7761102) on Wednesday, 21st October 2009
Longweekend
Many thanks for that, well I almost win the argument but the ship was wrong and the date.
Better than my pal EX RN he said Hermes 59 Venom.
Ill say not bad for a pongo to get one up on the RN
2295
If it's any consolation to your matelot friend, he was probably thinking of the Sea Vixen, which came into service in 1959. But the Sea Vixen has the distinction of being the last British conventional carrier fighter (leaving service when Eagle decommissioned), not the first!
LW
Eric "Winkle" Brown, who holds many records for firsts etc in FAA history, was the pilot, and his Vampire is (or was when I last visited) preserved on the "dummy carrier" deck at the FAA museum at Yeovilton.
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Posted by 2295wynberglad (U7761102) on Thursday, 22nd October 2009
LOngweekend.
Many thanks again, needless to say we are still pals, but both had to eat humble pie as we were both in error, and he admits to the plane being a vixen not a venom, and me with the wrong ship and date. Good ending.
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