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Vehicle Description :
The aircraft was taken out of service in 1993 and given a complete anti-corrosion treatment for long-time storage by the Swiss military. Aircraft is kept in dry hangar since then. It is of significant notice, that this is NOT the original British edition, but the Swiss-made version, that was made under license. There is really a big difference between the British and the Swiss version concerning the quality of the craftmanship and the numerous imnprovements even with respect to the smallest detail. The engine is a Rolls-Royce Ghost 48 Mk 1 with a remaining 250 hours. Also, this is a license built engine handcrafted by the Sulzer Brothers of Switzerland, where the assembly of the whole airframe took place. However, a hot section inspection needs to be done. Maintenance in general was done by the Swiss military under highest standards.
But for now, please read a little bit about the history of this airplane type.
Work on a substantially improved version of the Vampire, with a Ghost engine and a new thin wing, led to the de Havilland "Venom", which was built in some numbers and serving with several air arms. De Havilland also developed a much larger fighter, the twin-engine "Sea Vixen", with some configurational similarities to the Vampire / Venom. The Sea Vixen was built in relatively small numbers and served with the British Royal Navy. The Vampire was a remarkable success and an excellent aircraft, but since it was only Britain's second operational combat jet after the Gloster Meteor, there was obvious room for improvement. De Havilland engineers had been working on a more powerful centrifugal-flow engine named the "Ghost" to follow the Goblin, and also had ideas for aerodynamic refinements. A Vampire refitted with a Ghost on a trials basis broke the world altitude record in May 1947, and the Air Ministry, impressed, funded development of the improved variant, the "DH.112", originally to be designated the "Vampire FB.8". Two prototypes, conversions of Vampire FB.5s, were built, with the first flying on 2 September 1949, with John Derry at the controls. It was just in time to attend the Farnborough air show.
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