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The de Havilland DH.112 Venom was a postwar single-engined jet aircraft developed from the de Havilland Vampire. It served with the Royal Air Force as a single-seat fighter-bomber and two-seat night-fighter, a navalised version - the Sea Venom - serving with the Fleet Air Arm.
The Venom was an interim between the first generation of British jet fighters - straight-wing aircraft powered by centrifugal flow engines such as the Gloster Meteor and the Vampire - and later swept wing, axial flow-engined designs such as the Hawker Hunter and de Havilland Sea Vixen. Both the Venom and Sea Venom were successful exports and saw service with Australia, New Zealand, Iraq, Sweden, Switzerland and Venezuela. The French Navy operated the Sea Venom FAW.20 built under licence.
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This model by Roger Hardy depicts a Venom FB4 of 266 Squadron based at RAF Wunstorf, Germany in 1955.
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