Buccaneer Refueling probe

[bill2b]

Just had a nice visit to the Museum of flight at East Fortune, nice place to visit.
My question is that the Buccaneer had some markings on the refuelling probe, 0,3,5,7.
could anyone enlighten me on what they mean, my wife was very interested but I had no Idea, I never worked on the Bucc in my 23 years :)

[ZH875]

IIRC they are used as a standby bomb sight.

[bill2b]

Brilliant, thanks for that
Bill

[cobalt42]

I thought they were the PRIMARY sight :ok:

[Downwind.Maddl-Land]

Ah! So THAT'S why the S Mk 1 was so festering useless!

[Bclass]

The Strike Sight (like a HUD, but from the early 19th century) required a team effort to calibrate. Unless you had had your Weetabix it required two people to manhandle a large jig onto the (folded) nose. One techie would sit in the front seat looking through a monocular device attached to the Strike Sight. Another would be on a set of steps shining a torch into the prism attached to the top of the jig and a third would be on the ground, port side, just in front of the intake. The cockpit techie looked through the monocular at the pattern on the illuminated prism and compared it with the SS symbology. What happened next was a combination of shouting, finger rotating and fuselage slapping as cockpit tried to direct floor to adjust the H/V position of the symbology to match the prism pattern. Floor techie did this by finely adjusting a pot on the "dwidg" (Display Waveform Generator), a barrel shaped LRU that lived behind one of the oval shaped panels. Much fun ensued as floor techie would overshoot, cockpit would get annoyed and torch run out of battery.

In flight, if the SS failed, the single glass plate could be folded down to revert to manual. The probe marks were applied as part of the calibration effort. I doubt they were too accurate...

[bill2b]

Struth my head has just exploded lol
Thanks for the replies folks

[GreenKnight121]

And here I've heard so much about the Buccaneer's incredibly-capable avionics suite.

I'm so disappointed. ;)

[dctyke]

If you used luminous paint would it be a night sight :8

[ORAC]

And here I've heard so much about the Buccaneer's incredibly-capable avionics suite. the wonder of electronics. Nowadays all this would fit on one chip. I've read elsewhere that if tried to build the equivalent storage/power/music and film library of an iPad in the 1970s it would have taken a 35 storey building including several Cray supercomputers and it's own dedicated power station.....

Navigation and Bombing System NBS (H2S Mk 9A, Navigation and Bombing Computer NBC)
used in V-bombers Victor, Vulcan and Valiant. (http://www.tatjavanvark.nl/tvve/dduck0.html)

[Arclite01]

Wouldn't be surprised - certainly the ZX81 had more computing power than the computer that took Apollo to the moon.

There are a couple of interesting chapters in the book by Astronaut Michael Collins (it's called 'Carrying the Fire')

Arc

[david parry]

Ah, the days of the blue parrot and blue jacket ,and strike sight. The pinkys nightmare. We had are own strike sight King (Slim) He was a very rotund POREL Air. Shed many a pounds in sweat, setting up the 3 second warning etc ,etc on the long toss mode on the strike sight ,onboard HMS Eagle, in the lower hangar in the Far East :)

[John Eacott]

Shed many a pounds in sweat, setting up the 3 second warning etc ,etc on the long toss mode on the strike sight ,onboard HMS Eagle, in the lower hangar in the Far East :)

Ah, the splendid airconditioned hangars :cool:
https://scontent-b-lax.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xfp1/t31.0-8/p843x403/10551659_10203459761952298_2162958067736236103_o.jpg