Buccaneer 50th a few shots...
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Buccaneer 50th a few shots...
Yeah I know I've posted some of these before but it 'is' a special occasion
I've added a few new ones, I trust they bring back some great
memories of this truly awesome aircraft. We are all just lucky that some
are still flying in Cape Town
Brooksy
XV352
XV352
XX900 on her last flight Snowdonia 6 April 1994
XX901 owned now by the BAA
XX894
XX899 on her last flight Snowdonia 6 April 1994
(just noticed a great scratch along bottom right! Oh well, those
were the days, 35mm film!!!)
XV361
XX901
XX893
XV359
XX901 Last flight Snowdonia 6th April 1994
XX894 'dirty' in 809 NAS colours for the final 6 month's flying
208 Farewell Family album!!!
The great man himself, Roy Boot! (I didn't take this one!)
There's more on my Buccaneer website and here's a link to a youtube tribute vid I posted a few months ago,
I trust you like?
AB
I've added a few new ones, I trust they bring back some great
memories of this truly awesome aircraft. We are all just lucky that some
are still flying in Cape Town
Brooksy
XV352
XV352
XX900 on her last flight Snowdonia 6 April 1994
XX901 owned now by the BAA
XX894
XX899 on her last flight Snowdonia 6 April 1994
(just noticed a great scratch along bottom right! Oh well, those
were the days, 35mm film!!!)
XV361
XX901
XX893
XV359
XX901 Last flight Snowdonia 6th April 1994
XX894 'dirty' in 809 NAS colours for the final 6 month's flying
208 Farewell Family album!!!
The great man himself, Roy Boot! (I didn't take this one!)
There's more on my Buccaneer website and here's a link to a youtube tribute vid I posted a few months ago,
I trust you like?
AB
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Great shots of a great jet - it's impossible to believe that it first flew 50 years ago (30 April 58) and served for 33 years with the FAA, SAAF & RAF, the latter who flew it as an interim measure (following the TSR2/F-111 fiasco) for 25 years - some interim measure!
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Bucc-Banana name
I think it orginated at Brough when Blackburn management held an employee contest to name the aircraft shortly after uits first flight. Some wag in the Design Office Came up with "Blackburn ana" which slurred into "Black banana" It was triggered by the shape of the area-ruled fuselage. "Buccaneer" was also suggested by somebody else in the Design Office.
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Banana Jet
I think that this is the truth although others may choose to differ:
"The Buccaneer was designed to fulfil Naval Staff Requirement NA39 (Ministry of Supply Specification M.148T) issued in 1953 for a carrier-borne strike aircraft with a long range (430 nautical mile radius of action), capable of 610 knots at sea level, carrying an internal load of up to 4,000 pounds (including nuclear weapons) - below enemy radar - and attacking ships or ports. Blackburn's design, B-103, won the tender. Due to secrecy, the aircraft was called BNA (Blackburn Naval Aircraft) or BANA (Blackburn Advanced Naval Aircraft) in documents leading to the obvious nickname of "Banana Jet"."
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PS. On the 26th of April, 275 Bucc Aircrew (and their ladies) turned up at the FAA Museum at Yeovilton to dine under Concorde to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the First Flight - pre-dinner sips were taken on the Flight Deck with Buccs landing and taking off all around. What an excellent event it was and a worthy celebration of a great aircraft. At the same time, the SAAF aircrew from 24 Sqn were also celebrating at the SAAF Museum in Swartkop, Pretoria.
"The Buccaneer was designed to fulfil Naval Staff Requirement NA39 (Ministry of Supply Specification M.148T) issued in 1953 for a carrier-borne strike aircraft with a long range (430 nautical mile radius of action), capable of 610 knots at sea level, carrying an internal load of up to 4,000 pounds (including nuclear weapons) - below enemy radar - and attacking ships or ports. Blackburn's design, B-103, won the tender. Due to secrecy, the aircraft was called BNA (Blackburn Naval Aircraft) or BANA (Blackburn Advanced Naval Aircraft) in documents leading to the obvious nickname of "Banana Jet"."
FW
PS. On the 26th of April, 275 Bucc Aircrew (and their ladies) turned up at the FAA Museum at Yeovilton to dine under Concorde to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the First Flight - pre-dinner sips were taken on the Flight Deck with Buccs landing and taking off all around. What an excellent event it was and a worthy celebration of a great aircraft. At the same time, the SAAF aircrew from 24 Sqn were also celebrating at the SAAF Museum in Swartkop, Pretoria.
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STANDTO! Mate!!!
Please consider this a formal apology!
I shall thrash myself with nettles whilst naked 3 times a day for one month!
If you didn't get what was promised, please PM me with address details
and I shall dispatch something without delay to make up for my disgusting
and unforgivable behaviour!
AB (in disgrace)
Please consider this a formal apology!
I shall thrash myself with nettles whilst naked 3 times a day for one month!
If you didn't get what was promised, please PM me with address details
and I shall dispatch something without delay to make up for my disgusting
and unforgivable behaviour!
AB (in disgrace)
Climbed for about an hour near Ogwin on one of the sticky out rock things near the A5. AB
I've yet to try the A5 Pass! I would have loved to have snapped a Bucc at low-level!
Cheers
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Andrew,
Stunning pictures as always.
Have you considered running them through something like Neat Images? The programme is a free demo (JPEG ONLY) download and allows you to remove a lot of the graininess if you wish, I have ran one through on auto as an example of what it does, I hope you do not mind, but I thought it may show you what you could do if you were unaware of its existance. I run my Digital pics through it after Photoshop
http://www.neatimage.com/download.html
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Stunning pictures as always.
Have you considered running them through something like Neat Images? The programme is a free demo (JPEG ONLY) download and allows you to remove a lot of the graininess if you wish, I have ran one through on auto as an example of what it does, I hope you do not mind, but I thought it may show you what you could do if you were unaware of its existance. I run my Digital pics through it after Photoshop
http://www.neatimage.com/download.html
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Does anyone remember some spectacular footage of a Buccaneer performing low-level manoeuvers somewhere (I think) in the USA?
IIRC (and it was a long time ago I saw the film) the aircraft was evading a targeting system. I recall dust flying in it's wake and much whooping from the (very impressed) audience.
I would like to see it again if anyone recalls the footage.
PS Nice photographs above.
Cheers!
IIRC (and it was a long time ago I saw the film) the aircraft was evading a targeting system. I recall dust flying in it's wake and much whooping from the (very impressed) audience.
I would like to see it again if anyone recalls the footage.
PS Nice photographs above.
Cheers!