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[treadigraph]

None flying Rob, but there are certainly several surviving Scimitars and Sea Vampires, including at the Fleet Air Arm Museum at Yeovilton. There is also a Sae Balliol at the RAF Museum at Cosford...

http://www.fleetairarm.com/index2.htm

http://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/cosford/collections/aircraft/transport.cfm

Did I imagine it or is there also a Scimitar on that aircraft carrier in New York?

PS there might well be a flying Sea Vampire, I meant there are no flying Scimitars!

Cheers

Treadders

[RMAllnutt]

Yes, there is a Scimitar on board the USS Intrepid. There is also a Balliol in Sri Lanka if I remember correctly... can't remember if it's the navalized variant though. The Fleet Air Arm Museum has a very early Sea Vampire too... I think it's the one used for the first ever carrier landing by a jet aircraft.

Cheers,
Richard

[JohnS]

There is a Sea Vampire (well thats what I was told it was) at the Museum of Flight at East Fortune, Scotland

Have a look at my Webshots I'm sure I have a piccie of her there

Cheers,

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edit, I've just checked and there certainly is

Follow the link --> http://community.webshots.com/photo/119 ... 8026akWuwP

[Raven]

The Sea Vampire at Yeovilton is an historic aircraft, third prototype Vampire, and an important one at the time, with the /G for 'must be guarded when on the ground' suffix to its serial.

"3rd Dec 1945 - Started landing trials on HMS Ocean - 1st jet landing on ship at sea - Lt/Cmdr E.M. Brown RNVR ~"

[Bruce]

There are Sea Vampires, and sea vampires!

Of the single seat aircraft used by the navy, only one survives - the aforementioned LZ551/G at Yeovilton - incidentally, it is the second prototype Vampire.

The two seat sea Vampire, equivalent to the RAF T-11 is more prevalent; there is one at Yeovilton, one at East Fortune, and one at Duxford, along with a privately owned one with Martin Cobb in the UK. There are several in Australia.

I think there are only three surviving Scimitars, plus a few noses. None are in a position where they could be restored to fly - even if they were good enough.

The Sea Balliol at Cosford is I think the only surviving Sea Balliol; there are two cockpits of RAF Balliols with the Boulton Paul Group. I believe there are two aircraft in Sri Lanka, one of which has been inspected by a UK based organisation with a view to flying it, but negotiations fell through.


Bruce