Blackburn Buccaneer - Insane Low Level Bomber Americans couldn't shoot down - (Full Story)
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- Опубликовано: 4 июл 2024
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This video was a labour of love, I got to dive deep into the story of the amazing Banana Jet, the great Blackburn Buccaneer, I may have gone a little over the top, but hey, it's one of the greatest jets to ever grace the skies, even if those skies where around 20ft above the deck.
I have tried to cover the earlier history and development of the Buccaneer, along with her service and various deployments.
I hope you enjoy the video and please help out the channel but leaving a comment and a like. Many thanks, Joe.
Interview with Ken Norman
• The Buccaneer at Red F...
Credits:
METEOR: Chris Phutully - Gloster Meteor F.8
RAF Gloster Javelin FAW9 - Richard Vandervord
Alan Wilson
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Sea Witch - Peter Francis
Hello Sailor - Les Chatfield
Contents:
00:00 - Intro
01:22 - The Red Menace
03:23 - In the beginning
05:45 - Blackburn B.103
08:11 - Blackburn Wins
10:35 - Area Rule
11:27 - Built Like a Brick Outhouse
14:54 - Escape from Pirate Island
15:59 - Engines Hot
18:16 - Testing Times Begin
24:21 - Fill her up, Joe
26:03 - S.1 Woes
29:34 - The Sky Pirate - Buccaneer S.2
34:41 - Oily Situation - Tanker Attack
36:15 - Deep Blue Service
39:22 - Hit the floor, it’s 24!
44:49 - RAF Bricks
49:05 - Red Flag
52:08 - Grandma Goes to Gulf War
56:03 - End of the Runway
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Very well done, totally enjoyed your work and learned a lot about the Buccaneer, thank you.
Great to hear! This was a really fun video to research and put together.
@@AviationRepublic Lovin' your commentary. 👍
I will always remember as a child of the 70's and 80's in the Highlands of Scotland waving down at the pilots of Buccaneers if we were even a small way up a hill when they passed
I used to wave Down to or sometimes level with them @ the 7 Winds Cambusbarron . 1978/9
Same here, Lossie and Kinloss not far away from mine.
They "attacked" our car on holiday in Scotland. Buccaneers and Jaguars were a regular treat when we holidayed in Scotland.
@@liamhemmings9039 It wasn't only the RAF though I can remember being on a fishing charter boat in the 1990s which was vey obviously used by an RN frigate for weapons target drills
totallly, as a scout camping in the highlands I can remember being many feet ABOVE the buccaneers. The pilot waved at as us :-)
An hour long video on the Buccaneer? Yes please
Thank you for your continued support.
As a (South African) child in the 1970s, a 1/50(ish) Buccaneer in RAF colours had pride of place among the kit models hanging from my bedroom ceiling and I witnessed the spilling of many cooldrinks by SAAF low-level flybys at airshows - they certainly loved showing the Buccaneer off. Many thanks for this nostalgic trip down memory lane.
Lekker ou bees!
I must have handed over most of my pocket money to Airfix as a kid, I once had a squadron of Hawks, because the shop was having a massive clear out, so I bought them all.
My late stepdad served on HMS Victorious when the Bucaneers were flying from her, I remember him bringing home loads of photos showing them landing and taking off, and hitting the nets when the arrestor failed. Thrilling stories to listen to when I was a youngster
I hope you still have those photos, they must be amazing along with the stories, the best memories.
True story. In 1979 I was a F-15 crew chief with the 8th TFS Black Sheep at Holloman AFB, NM. We attended our first Maple Flag at Cold Lake CAFB in Alberta, Canada. Other nations there were England, France and Germany to participate in the exercises. Day 1 had our Eagles defending an area to prevent the Buccaneer aggressors from attacking targets there. Kudos to the Buc pilots for not only destroying the targets but egressing the range undetected.
And to add insult to injury, they tagged our F-15s the night before they were all to return to England by tagging the squadron decal with the 208 squadron logo.
haha quality! Ninja planes, and then ninja pilots
As a young father, I once sat with my family at a picnic table in the mountains above Betws-y-Coed, in Wales, watching a Buccaneer fly by below us. Memorable event.
Wow, I can't even imagine the thrill of looking down seeing the buck whizz by, great memories no doubt.
I was an aircraft inspector at HOSM 1966-1968 ( then we emigrated). This documentary is far and away the best seen thus far. Loved the pictures of the old workplace. Great coverage!! Anybody out there still with us that remember that strange test facility?
@@derekhutton9855 Yes, I flew an UFO back then. Your AVGAS tasted funny. Sorry, bad joke. The DIESEL tasted strange...
I know this site doesn’t get into politics but it has to be said Harold Wilson was a menace to innovation in military equipment. I met a member of the design team of the TSR2. He had tears in his eyes when MOD suits came into his office and took all details of the TSR2 to be destroyed.
He was quite effective in disarming Britain. I wonder if he was on the Soviet payroll. Like Blunt, Burgess and the other 2 spy's?
Unfortunately it looks like we will have another Labor part and they will screw up our military as they don't understand global politics. I have also met a TSR3 engineer and after all these years he is still devastated at the decision to scrap, he did like many other engineers take home some drawings. They scraped our space and ICBM projects which Elon is just now inventing !.
Morons!!!
I like to point out, SAAF Buccaneers did not carry out missions in South West Africa, only in Angola.
They did at times operate out of South West Africa. Their strike missions often started from Pretoria, flying directly to their target in Angola and not giving the enemy time to know they were coming.
Please, try not to confuse anyone with a fact as their minds are already made up.
@@rudolphguarnacci197 I agree, walk away if you can not have a civil discussion.
I remember reading a post about one of the Red Flag exercises, an USAF General was given the chance to be 'ballast' in a buccaneer when he got out of the plane he was shaking, and said 'we had to climb to get over a horse'.
Brilliant, bloody horses always getting in the way of the flight path.
2 of the Buccaneers that went to the Gulf were in major servicing at RAF Abingdon in various states of strip down. We got the signal on Wednesday evening that they were required. A major servicing normally takes 90 days. Both aircraft flew out of Abingdon to Lossiemouth on the following Monday, painted desert pink, under 5 days after getting the order.
Slipshod or over quoting... It can't be neither.
I remember fishing from the shore on Chesil Beach, Dorset, as a sixteen year-old in the summer of 1966, and being absolutely astonished by a Fleet Air Arm Buccaneer making a low-level pass at about 50 foot height and 200 yards off-shore. An awesome spectcle I'll always remember.
The cod fishing never recovered after that!!!
Thank you for this video! Having grown up in Lower Saxony, Germany I often have seen Buccaneers screaming over my hometown during NATO exercises in the 80´s. When I became a TORNADO WSO myself in the early 90´s with the German Air Force, I was jealous about the capabilities of the Buccaneers. Why didnt´t we have LGB like the BUCC? Surely we carried on with the low level flying at Goose Bay, Canada and Nellis during RED FLAG! Launched many HARMs into Serbia during Allied Force. I am retired now, but GAF TORNADOs still fly into their sunset. To me it is always sad to see, that combat aircraft types are getting retired at their peak of combat effectiveness. BUCC, TORNADO, TOMCAT are best examples… Again, thanks for the in depth dive! I subscribe and will follow your channel.
You must have some amazing stories, at the moment I am hooked on a YT channel called "Aircrew Interview", check it out, the stories are what make the planes. I hope one day to be able to interview the likes of yourself and document your experiences. One day.....
When I was a kid, me and my parents were on holiday in Scotland. Out for a drive one day, two Buccaneers came at our car at really low level. As they got close they waggled their wings. We thought it was a kind of wave at us. I later learned the waggle meant we were being "bombed".
When I did my RAF apprenticeship we had a couple of Bucks to train on. We studued the airframe in depth. It had some incredible innovations for carrier service. The strange 'coke bottle' shape is designed specifically to give her stability at ultra low level. The is why the Buck could fly so low SO STABLE. ordinary shape fuselages cause the aircraft to be troubled by ground buffet. The wings were also fitted with a superb system called 'Boundary Layer Control', which you mention. This allowed pressurised air to be tapped direct from the engine into the wings. This fed into slots and was fed along the laminar flow zone on the wings fooling the wing into thinking it was flying faster than in actually was! This gave the aircraft amazing carrier launch performance. Very sad when they slowly phased out all the 'cold war' jets I served on during my service. I know where many are stored awaiting a day we again need an ULTRA low level attack aircraft. Wrapped up in plastic and stored in temperature controlled hangers......
The Bucc in my local RAF museum was for years keep hidden away in the back of one of the display hangers and only recently put her in prime position in the main hanger where she belongs with a nice set of steps to get a look into the cockpit and right down the body where you really get to appreciate the work that went into her design. She truly was a one of a kind.
As a kid i was lucky enough to stand at the end of the runway at RAF Saarbrucken in Germany as 3 Buccaneers took off as the sun was going down. Fantastic aircraft.
@@brittrucker7218 Many American pilots lived in Germany for some years. The Brittish too, I guess. I remember 1985 there were British military in Germany, I served there, being Dutch. This is the BFBS, radio division of the SSBC. We listened to British radio.
@@voornaam3191 i think a lot of the British bases closed early 2000. Saarbrucken closed after reunification. I used to listen to BFBS when passing through Germany when i was working
Brilliant video, can't believe I just watched/listened to the whole hour. Your videos get better each time, I love the humour.
Glad you enjoyed it, I want to thank you for your continued support on every video :-)
Thank you, much appreciated.
Driving back to Grange over Sands from the Lake District, the road goes over a saddle between two high fells. I'm at the top of the rise when two of them came up from behind and frightened the crap out of me. A definitive Whiskey Tango Foxtrot moment. I'm wildly looking around in my mirrors for what was causing the huge noise and then I saw them streaking off down the valley towards Morecambe Bay. Needless to say they were diving towards sea level. Man they were low.
Change underwear moment.
American A6 guy here, had a lot of respect for the Buccaneer, the Ark Royal once ported in Norfolk (US) Virginia, got a good look at the Buc, very similar to the A6 in many respects, both planes were butt ugly. I believe the Tornado took over the role once filled by the Buc. Good video....the Buccaneer originated about three years prior to the Intruder.
Ugly? That must have been a Gannet 😂😂
My old man was stationed at Lossie at the end of the 70's. Says he saw a returning Buccs with dents in its arse from clipping waves more than once.
Those Pilots were a different breed, I can imagine Buccs returning with branches and leaves.
I saw my first Buccaneer when I went to Ireland in 1968. I remember the journey on a Viscount. We visited the Belfast which was still in service well before retiring to the Thames.
Great memories.
I saw my first one in the film "Priates of the Caribbean!"
@@amazer747 😁
In the late 1980s I worked on a mine near one of South Africa's largest military exercise grounds. There were regular army/air force coordinated exercises. One day I had to drive to a neighbouring town for something, and had a Buccaneer pass me at low level! That was quite a frightening experience!
I would have loved to have seen that, amazing memories.
I have to say the research you have done for this is extensive and detailed. A brilliant video about a unique and fascinating aircraft. Thank you for your hard work.
No comments about the battle of Belize. City when the Bucks flew off the carrier halfway across the Atlantic to get to British Honduras (Belize) to do a thunderous show of power over the city to dissuade the Honduran force from invading once they realised the British were just over the horizon when they were nowhere near, the plane then had to fly back around Cuba and Florida back to the carrier still ploughing across the ocean. It showed the long range and the refuelling capabilities.
⬇️ as featured in 'Phoenix Squadron'
A year please. Context also if you please. Thx.
If I could show you the original script, I had to cut out so much from it, it pained me to do so, if I had kept every thing in the video would have been about 2 hours, long, I still have the cut out bits, I might still put something together later on this year.
@@stephenchappell7512 You are correct I have edited it now, my memory is not as good as once was
@@GWAYGWAY1 me too 👍
You’ve done some great in depth research and deserve my like for this video. Well done. I’ve subscribed and will follow diligently. Thank you 😊
Thank you, much appreciated, I hope to earn your subscription. I enjoyed every minute of research, more to come.
My favourite jet of all time.
She is a great machine, but I am going to see if I can change your mind over the next few months.
Ugly duckling! I have always considered the Buccaneer to be one of the most stunning looking aircraft ever.
Great video....... beautiful aircraft. The Americans couldn't believe how low it could fly.
She is an engineering masterpiece, one of the greats, although, in two weeks I want to show you guys a truly beautiful jet.
Wow, well done, obviously a passion project. I have the grand total of 8hrs on the bucc and 20 on the converted Hunters that hung around Brawdy in the early 80s. I learned things from your documentary I didn’t know. Re the high speed Yaw issues. The Blackburn designers had to chop the fin hight on the drawing board so the kite would fit into the hanger deck of HMS Eagle. They knew there would be issues. Incidentally the Bucc was the fastest airframe into any target. But not on egress. That was the Tornado GR1 and the F111. Heartening that you young folks are taking an interest.
PS You omitted the “Show of Force” over Guatemala City in 72. Nobody killed but it really stopped a war.
I live in Belfast not far from where they were maintained at Sydenham and used to see them all the time landing or taking off . I too loved to see them and although they weren't allowed to do low level flights near the city they still became a favourite.
Conceived in 1954. That is amazing. Very well presented history of an unique aircraft, and no background music!
Subscribed.
Thank you, Music is a tough choice, I don't mind it in the right place, for example the next video has music but only due to the content.
Well done, it must have taken a long time researching as I attempted to find the red flag flights without success as I had seen them on the news at the time. The Americans came out from their bunkers to watch the Buccaneers when they came out between the sand dunes, as they could not believe anyone could fly so low.
Thank you, I would have released the video sooner if it were not for my need to fret over every single word and paragraph. The Red flag research was the most interesting, the skill of those pilots was on another level, just super human.
Imagine if they were deployed to the Falklands.. They could have made a big difference.
Ah, interesting you should mention that, I had found some material about plans to send them down but i could not verify the authenticity of it so i left it out.
Nice post, it’s helped to put some of my fathers service with the Fleet Air Arm into perspective. We lived in Gudge Heath Lane, Fareham just a few houses up from the Buccaneer pub, which had sign with a pirate on one side and the aircraft on the other. Dad was just leaving the Fleet Air Arm as a “Sparky” and was encouraging me to go into defence electronics. So at 14 I went to the Technical College next my school for CSE Electronics lessons. Being tutored by other ex-service guys we took a look at the Buccaneer airframe they had next to our classroom in the carpark. Dad always took me to the RNAS HMS Daedalus air show and pointed out some of the aircraft he worked on including the Buccaneer, Swordfish, Gannet, and Wasp Helicopters. Before Daedalus I know he served on HMS Ashanti servicing the Westland Wasps in the Middle East and Africa. Prior to that he was stationed in RNAS Lossiemouth for training I presume. Fascinating to see the difference between his technology of valves and early transistors and mine of early integrated circuits and miniaturisation. Unfortunately the UK defence industry was doomed from the mid 1970’s so many of the companies and jobs where I grew up have disappeared into history.
What a bird... well done Blackburn.
You just reminded me of Ace Rimmer, what a guy.
A trip down memory lane , @ 70 years and counting I remember building Airfix models of these planes, when they Bombed the oil tanker I was in the Army cadets doing my basic training at 13 years old @ Penhale camp in Cornwall, my appreciation of is shown in the fact I stayed for the complete video, and then subscribed , Thank You
In South Africa, the Buccaneer was to be used in the delivery of a nuclear bomb. I was told there was one on standby at all times to be ready to do the job. My friends dad was a fighter pilot, and I would listen when him and other pilots were talking. Got lots of info from listening to them. The Buccaneer is an amazing aircraft, and how those guys were flying was amazing. We had a fantastic Airforce in South Africa. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Speaking as an ex airline pilot, this is an a/c I would love to have flown. Great video thank you.
Thank you very much, you speak for all of us, what we would not have sold to get our hands on the stick, as I said in my video, I tried to copy them with a little cessna over the north sea, I think I was about 18 at the time, young and stupid., but wow, was it hard.
Who's side is the Labour party on?
They were eager at selling jet engines to the USSR that got reverse engineered and installed in the Mig 15 that the Brits and allies had to face in Korea, but did not want to sell more Buccaneers to South Africa, a long time ally that was under threat from the USSR and it's allies.
Why do you think I left England all those years ago? Labour is a extreme left wing. They hate the forces.
Today of all days, i am going to resist getting drawn into politics :-) What can i say, politicians are fickle
@@AviationRepublic It was just a statement from my end from my observation in history, as a Canadian.
@@jeffnic3116I think you ably answered your own question there! I was at an RAF base in the early 70s when, at one point, a SAAF C- 130 had to be hidden on a disused dispersal, surrounded by trees therefore out of sight, while a YAK-40, sporting a great big red star on the tail fin, was parked - in pride pride of place - on the VIP slot. Guess which Party was forming the Gvmt at the time?
Superb piece of work. Grew up with the Buc in moray shire and saw two go in, luckily with no loss of life.
Thank you for filling all those gaps on the topic, great video.
The only thing still missing that you did not provide, yes, what were they thinking the Germans, F-104 as a strike aircraft?
Bribe money goes a long way, I am tempted to cover that particular story, may be one day.
I personally recommend "Phoenix Squadron" by Rowland White
very good book about the RN FAA in the 60/70's , covers the long distance "show of force" done By 2 Blackburn Buccaneers , that prevented a war
That's a top recommendation, there was so much I wanted to add to the video, but decided to leave them for another time, but yes, that's a great read.
Ah, I was but a little boy, but these are what I thought of when I thought of a fighter jet.
Thank you for an excellent presentation always thought of the Buccaneer as a great piece of British aero engineering.
Excellent vurke. I'm amazed at the idea of the engine bleeding over the wings to increase lift.
It's a pretty amazing Idea, i had written a whole section on how it works for the video, but I had to cut it and other parts otherwise it would have been over 2 hours long
@@AviationRepublic If you ever find the time to make that video I would absolutely watch, and like it.
Great video, well done. There is another RUclips video in which a buccaneer test pilot tells the story about the test flight in which the navigator was trapped for around 1 minute. The aircraft landed in a forest and left a silhouette of it's self on the trees and bushes it scrapped past. I will try and refind it for you.
Thank you, I think i know the video you are referring to, the one where the bucc landed sort of flat and broke into three sections.
I remember seeing the Bucaneer displays at airshows in the 80's. Wonderful aircraft. Now, if only they gave her some afterburners. Ahh well 😢 Great video. Thank you and subscribed.❤
I agree with you, the P150 Blackburn had on the drawing board would have given her reheat, but once again, foiled by the bean counters.
This is great video. Amazing how quickly aviation advanced between the late 30’s and mid 50’s.
Stationed Lossie 83 to 86, loved the Bucc 🇬🇧
An excellent documentary . The SII version had the Rolls Royce Spey engines that were powering the Gulfstream III I flew for many years. Thank you.
Thank you very much, really appreciate your comment, means a lot. Gulfstream.....nice., I can imagine you have some stories.
It was one of the best aircraft I ever seen at an air show .
I worked as an electrical artificer on Buccs. I remember the strike sight had a Long Toss (15 miles to target) and Short Toss (3 miles).
Awesome work, incredibly well researched about a bygone age and above all else very entertaining. Thank you
That is impressive but don’t forget the aircraft carrier that had to look down to see the passing B-52.
As a southafrican I remember those baby's over capetown
I have many SA friends who also remember seeing her fly, she holds as special a place in your hearts as she does in ours.
I knew most of this, but, this is all in one place.
Marvellous.
Buccaneers we're one of my favourite aircraft. Had to watch. Didn't know they were in Iraq war. Live and learn. 👽👍
The Cold War has started to freeze again😢😅Thank you for this upload . Love the Buccaner👍😊👍
Yeah, unfortunately, fingers crossed no one start chucking little balls of sun at each other.
very informative, thanks!
Really informative and well delivered. Enjoyed every minute and you brought back some great memories. Thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it, I enjoyed making it and gave me an excuse to visit the local RAF museum to stare at the Bucc S.2
I worked on front line servicing doing BFIs and turnaround inspections, they were flown by the naval air dept. Doing low sorties over the North Sea. Refuelling was interesting. Ah happy days
I have seen a video of a Buccaneer at Red Flag rocking from side to side such that its wing tips created alternate dust trails. The video has the sound track of USAF ground controllers expressing absolute amazement. Despite much searching it appears this video has been withdrawn.
I’ve looked for it everywhere, I first saw it when I was serving in the RAF but cannot find it now 😢
I don't think it's on YT, I searched high an low for red flag footage, there is some but not much.
I saw it on TV. Hair raising.
I glad other people remember it. I was beginning to think I made it up.
It was filmed through the gunsight of a ZSU-23-4 captured during the the '73 Yom Kippur war and transported to Red Flag thereafter to provide true life training realism. I think it featured on the BBC daily magazine programme that followed the News. The voiceover commentary from the operators was - shall we say - 'excited'! If anyone has access to that footage - get it on YT; you'll make a fortune!
Great work, Thank you.
Worked on them at Lossiemouth and HMS Eagle thoroughly enjoyed my time back in the late 60s early 70s
Great video, I knew almost nothing about the Buc, great machine!
FYI, you are correct about ‘young’ Americans not being familiar with the bridal launch, but American planes were using the same system until the A6, A7, S3 came along. Notice the “bridal catcher’ extensions sticking out on the bows of American carriers. A4, F8, F4s were all using bridals. My first cat shot in a T2 on the Lexington was with a bridal. Also in an TA4J in the training command on the Ranger (Lex was in the Yard or something) was with the bridal. I noticed in your video, there was a splash in front of the carrier that indicates to me the bridals were a one shot item. True?
The A7 was my first launch bar experience.
Don’t know if you do other than British history (which is great history) but anyone who likes the Buccaneer, would like the A7. A much underrated under appreciated aircraft. The last bombing computer update made it the most accurate unguided bomber that ever existed. And the A7F which no one bought, was a supersonic jet with incredible night low level on autopilot capabilities! Ironically no one bought it supposedly, was no one wanted a single engine plane any more. Can you say F35? And please, no bs about engine reliability.
I really enjoyed your video, thank you. I was fortunate to work on the Bucc at 24 SQN SAAF as Instrument Mech. She will always be my favourite jet. If only people knew what all she accomplished! As to the story of the AH failing, causing a crash….. I always made certain to have a spare Standby AH on hand. Changed a few while the aircraft waited to taxi, right there on the pilots lap, on the apron.
AFAIK the last flight of a RAF bucc was from Aldergrove to a disused WW2 airfield about five miles away where the Ulster Aviation Society had a museum and collection. This aircraft was being donated to the museum and the flight was a few minutes from start to finish.
Impressive detail in your research. Thoroughly enjoyed your presentation.
Thank you, I really, really pleased you enjoyed it, More to come, I just wish I had more time during the week to devote to research and writing. One day maybe.
It was a classic case of if the RAF had accepted Blackburn's offer of the P.150 Super Buccaneer variant, the RAF could have gotten their overdue Canberra replacement as early as 1968! And the RAF could have fielded 150 planes and become a major nightmare for Soviet war planners until at least the late 1980's (and possibly beyond since the Super Buccaneer could fly almost as fast as the Panavia Tornado in low altitude operations).
Interestingly the cockpit and RADAR for the Tornado was tested by bolting it onto a Buccaneer and the resulting Hybrid was deemed to be better than either aircraft
@@davidmcintyre8145 Correct. A Buccaneeer S.2 was modified to carry and test the radar that would eventually go into Panavia Tornado. Appropriate since the Buccaneer flew almost the same type of low altitude mission the Tornado would fly.
good video, thanks.
Up until 2009 'Thunder City' operated Lightnings, Hunters and Buccaneers out from Cape Town International Airport however following an air show crash all of its aircraft were sadly grounded
I used to dream of going to SA just to ride in the Lightning, never mind.
@@AviationRepublic
They operated 2 seaters so it would
have been possible
All of the collection has since been
brought by Hanger 52 Aviation and
moved to Port Elizabeth who hope
to use them in an 'adversary' role
One of my favourite Airfix kits
Hi Jo, What a brilliant Video about a jet I have always loved! I used to attend the RAF Battle of Britain air displays at St Athans (When it was an RAF base) in the 80's. Your production was not only very informative but interesting answering many questions I had always had about the BANANA jet! All in all, 11/10! ( you now have a new subscriber here in 'Gods other country!...Cymru am byth! }
Hello, thank you very much, really, really pleased you enjoyed it. Mwy o fideos i ddod, cael diwrnod gwych a diolch unwaith eto
809 NAS - ''The Immortals' - The Phoenix Sqn. [HS - Buccaneer S.2] - They were some pretty cool aviators... And everyone loved their aircraft, even though the fighter//defence wing - ''The Omegas' - 892 NAS - [MD- Phantom FG.1] stole most of the glamour...
Captain Ted Anson - was my first skipper... And the last captain of HMS Ark Royal [RO9], later to assume Flag Officer Naval Air Command under the flag of Rear Admiral. A consummate aviator and commander and a really nice bloke...
Ahh.... Standing on the portside island sponson, clutching a mug of tea, having just come off watch in the MCO (Radio Shack), leaning on the rail with a mug of hot char... Watching these guys at flying stations .. At dusk.... The plasma 'diamonds' deflecting off of the deflector shield and reaching high into the air.... As the 'Badgers' busy themselves around the taught and eager 'Buck' as they engage the shuttle bridle to the forward fuselage.... A roar, a whoosh, and a bang as the bridle hits the stop.... And the raven-like silhouette of the Buccaneer rises - with some grace - into the air ahead.... Then she's off.... Replenish the tea and smoke, in time to return to watch the night landings....
One of my first Airfix models. A cracking aircraft
As many will say, Loved the buccaneer. True pirate of the skies. At a local airfield. always had visits from Buccaneers, in the later years,12& 208 deployed there on a regular basis, as the buccaneer didn`t play nice with other a/c had their own area on the airfield. On a day off visit, there were Buccs and all of a sudden ,I guess, 8 aircraft started, unfolded their wings and taxied out! Fantastic.
Probably the last time I saw so many. I did rummage through some photos, and have one in a raspberry ripple scheme, camo tail and registration ZU-BCR. The picture is undated. Anyone know its fate?
Excellent content - some really interesting insights into the the Buc's operational career. Interesting that you covered the operational service in SA, and also sympathetically touched on the Rhodesian UDI topic. Would be really interested in a video dedicated to the RhAF post-WWII use of British fast jets, such as the Hunter and Canberra, some interesting material there, but not a lot of high quality content on here. Just a thought. Look forward to your next vid.
Love the "Brick"!
Yes, walking up an old volcano in NE Scotland in the 60's, several stunned me flying below me!
Similar experiences in Snowdonia - from the top of Tryfan seeing Buccs down below in the valley screaming down from Capel Curig, making the sharp turn over Llyn Ogwen and then down the Ogwen valley towards Bangor...
Great upload 😊😊❤
Thank you! Cheers! Much appropriated, I am very pleased you enjoyed it.
I had a low flying Buccaneer come low over my head in a valley in Rochdale
Did you duck?
Just subscribed as this is very professional.
Thank you, welcome, I hope to earn your subscription.
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The Buc and Canberra are two aircraft I miss and are (in my opinion) difficult to replace for what they could do given all that now archaic tech
I had the privilege of looking inside the Sea Vixen a few weeks back, the museum open the Radome.Nose cone and the internals looked like they were from the Victorian times, just big lumps of metal, amazing engineering.
Very well researched, thank you for your efforts. I wonder if you would cover the TSR-1 at some time?
Possibly! I will need a lot of time and material, you know what, let me stick on my notice board, but it might be a couple of months before it is out.
I have had a little experience with the Buccaneer. The first time was watching a video of them at Nellis for Red Flag, in '77 (it had some Vangelis music overplaying the sound recorded on the original video of the jets at red flag. I was so surprised to see dust rising from the desert floor from the wingtip vortices as they banked sharply travelling down one of the canyons. I watched it at the HQ building at RAF Stafford, having just arrived that day. Since then, I have been a fan of the Buccaneer. Some time later whilst based at Abingdon, and being on the shooting team (practicing for Bisley, some time between 1985-1988) some of the Battle Damage guys came to the range with a strange request. They wanted to put some panels from a Buccaneer behind our targets so that they would be able to work out a repair for them. Normally they used a shotgun for this purpose, but that only blasted the paint off. The 7.62 rounds did the job. Also, as a kid, and an adult, saw them at airshows flying and ground display, including at RAF Abingdon airshows. Thanks for putting this on here. If you have the whole video of them being flown at red flag, could you put that on here, I'm holding out suscribing, but if you do that, I'll subscribe.
Fantastic information presented very well, though please move a couple inches back from the mic to reduce the uneven proximity effect boominess.
Glad to have found your channel, subscribed
Saw a formation of them in 1980 over RNAS culdrose. Came out of nowhere.
There were some Bucs in CFB Cold Lake, Alberta, Canada, for exercise Maple Flag, (I have forgotten when) a mate and I were walking the line of Bucs looking for a suitable candidate to wear our Squadron mascot, 409 Norman. We had positioned the stencil just right and were about to apply paint when when we got caught. Asked what we were doing, it was suggested that we zap a particular aircraft as they were trying to get a collection, we obliged.
The laser designator was one of its key features, so I have been told.
It’s like pissing into a well where you can’t hear the bottom. We developed the TSR too. Concorde has been retired…
A great video about one of my favorite aircraft that I have worked on, but there is one mistake Lossiemouth was only leased out to the Navy from the RAF so it should have said that it was returned to the RAF after the Navy left RAF Lossiemouth was were that No 9 and 617 Sqn's took off from to bomb the Tirpitz.
Apart from that it was a fantastic put together video.
The Buccy was a superb pilots aircraft.. and definately one of the best Postwar aircraft to serve .
As for the F104 G well Bob Calvert of Hawkwind covers that nicely in his Captain Calvert and the Lockheed Starfighters...album including tracks like the Salesman, the Gremlin and the Widowmaker. 😬🤦🏻
The same salesmen may have had some influence in canceling the TSR2.. another aircraft of promise..
There are U tube videos of those American exercises.. where US missile defence guys are trying to get locks on charging Bricks ... In the end you hear some of them say they are just going to go outside and watch the fun.😂😎
I am going to have look those up, I have the TSR2 script in the pipeline, it's a long one.
'The only viable replacement for the Buccaneer would have been an updated Buccaneer'.
If only, We can dream.
Very well put together post, lots of clips I haven't seen before. Growing up in the 50's was such an exciting time in aviation for me. Such a pity we were broke as a country after WW2 and second fiddle to the US. For a few brief years we led the aviation world though. I often wonder why the US wouldn't cooperate with us apart from Canberra and Harrier until the F35 many years later. They screwed us with the EE Lightning. Their Starfighter, which the USAF didn't really want was pushed onto NATO who were looking at our EE Lightning. As for TSR2 think what Uncle Sam could do with that. The F111 was no match! Keep up the good work. Liked and subscribed.
There was a video which was part of the excellent program about the old HMS Ark Royal. One scene shows a Bucaneer passing the ship. The plane was flying between the seas surface & the deck of the Aircraft Lift . 15 to 20 feet. My god ir was low though.
Riveting watching 👏👌👍
Thank you, much appreciated, really glad you enjoyed it. .
You know when a Bucc is low - he has to climb to avoid a sheep.
I read that some bucc pilot was explaining to someone how they can judge how low they are flying based on the number of legs animals have, I will need to find that interview.
Only seen once in the low flight area 7 (LFA7) in southern Germany during the Excercise "Central Enterprise" 1986 or 1987.
Sadly they flew not often in southern Germany... ☹️
Great memory, Many of us never got to see her in flight, or at airshows, my parents were not aviation fans, no matter how much I begged and grovelled for them to take me, even today they won't take me, typical.
One thing I find curious is that the picture depicted of ostensibly the moving of the Buccaneer by road to Bedfordshire in 1954? The Bedford lorry carrying it is of 1966 vintage, shown by the 'D' suffix registration. Other than that a great video on a magnificent aircraft.