Ray Down's Photographs #2

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THE FRADU COLLECTION


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"Ray Down lives in Somerset and used to work as a fitter on Hunters for Airwork at RNAS Yeovilton from 1972 to 1983.
He collected this collection of photos and sent them on to me for inclusion on the site."

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A Sea Vixen waits on the ground	Two Vixens being readied for a flight

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Now just what has happened here?

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The rear of WJ574 showing the target wire	WK123 on a typical FRADU sortie

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Hunter GA.11 meets a balloon	GA.11 WT809 downed by an engine failure

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A Canberra meets her sister ship	The last FRADU Canberras in 1992

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Two shots showing some of the Sea Vixens that were operated by the FRADU

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Here are a third and fourth shot of the Vixens taken at the same show

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Ray Down lent all images shown above to myself.
If you wish to use these photos on another web-site you must first get his permission.