Wasn't there a Buccaneer with development Tornado kit, which led the Test Pilots to wonder ' why are we bothering with Tornado ' ?!
Obviously needed upgrading or a revised airframe / engines, but overall seems to have worked.
Not sure what it would be like at medium level, then again the Tornado was not a spectacular success at that either...
My own ( peripheral ) experience of the Bucc' was the chase / photographic examples at West Freugh, green & yellow; the staish authorised an air-air photo sortie with an Andover, self thankfully not involved.
When the photo's were printed, it turned out the aircraft's upper surfaces had been liberally coated in guano by the resident Jackdaws - C/O was not a happy bunny, and one has to wonder about inspection procedures !
Last edited by Double Zero; 21st Apr 2009 at 19:27.