Here’s one Aussie Sea Venom that I would have checked very carefully before flying.
It’s one from RNAS Melbourne at the Airshow that opened the new Singapore Airport at Paya Lebar in July 1961.

The crowd was allowed to ‘poke and pull’ all over the aircraft in those days.
In fact the Singapore policeman is more interested in me with the camera than what the guys behind are doing to the plane.

I do hope the Aussies get a Sea Venom airworthy again.
One forgets that the Fleet Air Arm pilots and those other navies had pretty bad accident records with jets in the 50’s and it took considerable work to get aids like ‘deck batmen’, angled decks and proper deck landing guidance systems to overcom those losses.

Dave T

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