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An outstanding production. Well researched and well presented. Would be perfect if it were a bit shorter. :-)

As an air cadet I had the opportunity to spend a week at RAF Laarbruch in 1974 and saw a Bucaneer up close. Somehow it reminded me of a fat porpoise. That's not meant in any derogatory way - it was a very curvy aircraft with a streamlined silhouette.

Back in 1970, I was at a boarding school in Kent, miles from anywhere, my mate and I were cutting grass on our football pitch when a Buccaneer and a Sea Vixen came out of nowhere, so low that we both just hit the ground! That started my love of aircraft!

The first time the Buccs took part in Red Flag, the pilots were informed of the operational height. They were shocked; "What's the matter, don't you guys fly that low"? To which they replied "We don't normally fly that high". USAF thought this was just talk. Then Buccs came back with phone wires wrapped round them and a number of cactus plants were decapitated. I read that instead of spending so much on TSR2, the RAF could have saved money and developed a supersonic Bucc.

Had a wiper blade to clear grass clippings 😂😂

"Nevada" landscape at 49:52 looks remarkably like North West Saudi Arabia..... ask me how I know.

The Swedes taught the British to fly low….

Fantastic account of a wonderful aircraft flown by the best pilots.We owe a debt of gratitude to these skilled, brave airmen

If you knew a good Buc pilot you could get him to mow your lawn.

when attacking shipping the F-111 would fly at about 900 knots at 50 feet (perhaps only 200-100 feet in most training missions). It was fairly common to find tree branches stuck in the engine air inlets.

Sorry but your voice is to drab

That was good, very good. I have to agree, the brick was, and still is, very very missed. To see it at 20ft, 500mph and steady as a rock, coming towards you, is great in scaring the s*** out of you and reinforcing the fact that those pilots, had so much skill in doing it. Great video.

Dude... way too much bass on your mic.

great indepth piece on the Buccaneer...would love to see you cover the Avro CF-105 Arrow

Really good video, and i love all the archive footage you've found and used too! The bucc is one of my absolute all time favorites, shame i never got to see one fly. I did build the airfix 1/48 s2c though, and my god does it look good!

Great aircraft. Very good presentation. Thanks for the information.

Great video! Struggling to place your accent though…could you enlighten me!?

Back in the 1970s the BBC had an early evening news programme called "Nationwide". On one show they proudly ran a short film of an exercise which showed RAF Buccaneers attacking U.S. defensive positions. We saw the actual screens the Americans were using to try and lock on to the buccaneer jets. They were flying so low and fast they couldn't lock on at all. The Americans were shouting in amazement. One saying he was going outside to take a look. The "Nationwide" presenters had smiles on their faces and were dead chuffed. I must say that I was dead chuffed too.

If I was in the market for a JET FIGHTER!!! It sooooooo annoys me that you moderns have transposed the two words - and ridiculously so in most cases because you apply them willy-nilly - to MULTI-ROLE aircraft. F4 Phantom - hands down - got up close and friendly with one back in 1988 during a fantastic week in Florida - (which included a VIP invite to see The Shuttle Discovery launch doanchaknow!) On the down side - I've known four guys who not only loved to fly like fighter pilots but also managed to earn enough to buy themselves a Spitfire........ they've all made big impressions in the ground and earnt a free harp to go with their wings.

Aircraft of my childhood living between lossie and kinloss seen them all the time. The aircraft from the petrol station now living at the deer center in fife just a stone throw from me now. An icon.

the Buccaneer - probably the fastest plane ever at 15 feet

British engineers will be given a specification sheet detailing everything including exactly how many stitches the seat may have, a time frame you can't even play monopoly in and a budget of £1 5' 2d yet still create something revolutionary, effective and iconic. Plus it'll likely be built by 2 men in a shed fueled by bacon, beer and the occasional ciggie.

me dad said it was his favourite aircraft, completely underrated.

Brilliant video. As a plane obsessed teenage boy ,I remember seeing TV footage of the bombing in Iraq,and double taking when saw the Bucaneer taking part next to Tornadoes and Jaguars. What a legendary plane.

I remember as a schoolboy returning home one morning from doing my paper round when I lived in Thetford, Norfolk, not far from RAF Honington where Bucaneers were based. I heard an awfully loud noise outside and on going out into the road near the house saw a Bucaneer flying down the road on the estate below roof height! Apparently there was an exercise at Honington and the Buccs had launched and were presumably flying low avoiding radar detection. It scared the hell out of me😁 Some years later when i was on detachment to Goose Bay in Labrador with the Victor tankers bringing the Buccs home from their victory in the Red Flag competition, I stood on top of a hanger to see them flying below between the hangars😬

Built at Brough just up the road from where I live

buccaneers takeoff from a carrier and then descend immediately to operating altitude

🌟 #NewSub #datswatsup

I've always had a soft spot for the Buccaneer, beautifully ugly and astoundingly good at what it did. the fact that the yanks couldn't touch it is just a bonus.

The superlative quality of the RNAS Pilots cannot be overstated.

Thank you for making this dude. It got me through my history homework

Great vid. Remember seeing them leave RAF Manston after and Airshow, take off followed by lov level beat up of the runway and departing low level via pegwell bay.

Radar amd missile limitations of the late 60s and 70s required low level flight profiles. A correction to your statement about the F104. It was a superb strike fighter. The high wing loading and power made it even faster and easy to fly low level. Once nuclear strike was converted to conventional munitions the 104 was unsuitable with its limited payload.

Amazing how often “but a Labour government…” pops up to occlude the development and success of the amazing aircraft developed in Britain during the fifties and sixties.

How the hell do you get a plane of that size from Brough to Holme on Spalding Moore? Guessing those trees on the A1034 have grown since.

My uncle worked on Buccaneer at Lossiemouth. He told me that they had engine power loss problems at rotate speed on the take off run, and catch nets were fitted at the end of the runways. The ejector seats were also a problem at times, with random ejections occurring and one situation where a bird strike caused the nav to eject but left the pilot in the aircraft. I guess these would be S1 versions. I don't know how much of this was true but he was a respetcable man.

It would have been shot down. Phantom II.

My grandfather, mother and father all worked for some or all of; Blackburns, Hawker Sidley & BAE at Brough. Of all the aircraft my dad worked on, the Buccaneer always had a special place in his heart.

Great video! Love the details!

I was assigned to Nellis AFB Nevada when both the Buccaneers and Vulcan bomber were there for Red Flag, At the time I was a technician on F-15A aircraft. I found both RAF aircraft quite fascinating. Years later I saw the Buccaneers in their Desert Storm livery.

Great video, nicely put together. I spent most of my RAF time on the Bucc fleet at RAF Honington, ASF & 208 Sqn. Laarbruch ASF & XV Sqn. Work with 237 OCU & Victors at Marham on IFR. Finally at Lossiemouth with 208 Sqn. Fell in love with this airframe on my first posting and loved all my time. It was a sad weekend in 1994 when the Bucc was finally taken out of service from Lossie as the Tornados took over. The Buccaneer was and aircraft flown by warriors and maintained by gods. :) Once again great video.

I was on 700z nas at Lossiemouth with the pre production mk 1’s, I remember an exercise with the French where they refused to play because our pilots wouldn’t climb to 200ft so that they had a chance of zapping them. Was also on 801 nas on the victorious. I quite literally watched the tiny v aerial on top of the fin slide down the side of the angle deck as the pilot tucked under it. Fun fact the mk 2 was slower than the mk 1 as it had larger intakes that held it back🇬🇧😊

The Torrey Canyon episode was a disaster for the Navy. BP wanted to get a tanker alongside and pump the oil off. They Navy said no, we'll bomb it. Which is what they did, releasing the oil into the sea.

And the sheep abort through shock....

True story. 40 years ago I was SAM missile battery commander, when Buccaneer, Mirage 3RZ and Impala MB326 conducted simulated attacks on us during an "Golden Eagle" exercise. The spotter could not see the aircraft approach at fast speed. Only after the aircraft had gone whoosh past us below eye level in a very shallow valley 80m away, did the spotter confess, "Oh, I thought they were cows!" 🐄🐄🐄😁

many trhanks, great video