When the S2's were delivered to Farnborough (1975ish) the crews did a lot of airways flying to familiarise themselves. London Control got a bit miffed as they cruised at about FL 260/280 at some 550kt true (don't know what mach no that would be) where the fastest airliners (Tridents in those days) only did just over 500kt, hence the Buccaneers quite often tended to overtake other traffic at the same level, requiring extra vectoring by the radar controllers as a visual overtake wasn't allowed!
Last edited by chevvron; 25th Aug 2013 at 04:33.