de Havilland DH.112 Venom
The Swept Vampire
“The Vampire's faster, meaner successor.”
de Havilland · military
Give the Vampire a thinner swept wing, a Ghost engine with half again the thrust and tip tanks, and you have the Venom. It served the RAF as a fighter-bomber in Malaya and Suez, and Switzerland built 250 of its own and flew them until 1983. The Swiss jets are the ones still flying today, mostly in private hands and still wearing their original camouflage.
Swiss Venoms flew from alpine valleys for 30 years and were the last Venoms in military service anywhere, retired in 1983, a decade after the type's last RAF flight.
Vampire twin booms, but the wing has a swept leading edge and tip tanks on the ends. A slightly bulged pod and a taller fin on each boom give it away from the Vampire.
One might be overhead right now.
Bogey turns the The Swept Vampire from a dot in the sky into a card in your logbook.
