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Old 14th Sep 2023, 12:15
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Originally Posted by GeeRam
That photo is perhaps more interesting what it looks like is parked next to the Bucc.......pretty sure that's a Scimitar, and thus likely one of the last times one was on display, as some were retained for use by FRU up to December 1970 when the final flight of a Scimitar took place.
To the left as one looks is the shadow cast by an F-4 and beyond the Scimitar Sea Vixen what looks like the tail of a Gannet

View of an 800B Scimitar from a Bucc. cockpit during refuelling.


Screenshot from IWM collection item 'Buccaneers' of 1966 (Narrated by the late Bob Holness) https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/i...ect/1060020488

But two can play at that game





or even 4




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