Buccaneer on the move
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Buccaneer on the move
Yesterday I overtook a Buccaneer which was travelling up the M6 only 4 feet off the ground. This proved several things to me, namely that a Buccaneer still looks great at low level, and that a hire car really is the fastest car in the world. It did make me wonder, though, where it had come from (it had come on at the M5) and its destination, and the colour scheme was unusual too - all red tail, the front of it light grey and the middle bit white, with grey and white stripes just forward of the red bit. Any ideas?
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As it happens a colleague came into work yesterday morning saying that he had seen a 'colourful Bucc' on trailer at the services on the M27 (the ones close to the M3 juntion at Southampton). So maybe Bournemouth?
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I came across this very same Buccaneer at a roundabout shortly before Liverpool docks. I have to say it made my evening. I told Mrs Tornadohotas that the last time I saw a Buccaneer it wasn't much higher but she didn't seem too impressed.
I told Mrs Tornadohotas that the last time I saw a Buccaneer it wasn't much higher but she didn't seem too impressed.
Huh, women. Is there nothing that impresses them?
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And to most all those planes "look the same". Mrs. Sandiego89 frequently comments on my airplane magazines "wasn't that the same cover as last months?", sigggghhhhh
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And to most all those planes "look the same". Mrs. Sandiego89 frequently comments on my airplane magazines "wasn't that the same cover as last months?", sigggghhhhh
And to most all those planes "look the same".
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we parked on the ramp next to another Cessna Mustang. She looked over the neighbouring aircraft for a few seconds, then asked me "what sort of plane is that?"
Thanks for the replies to the initial query.
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Thanks Nutloose...
This Sunday 26th August 12 is the 2nd Cold War Jets open day at Bruntingthorpe Proving Ground in Leicestershire. All wellcome £15 per adult on the gate from 10am.
usual mix of fast taxi runs from Buccaneers, Lightnings, Canberra, Hunter, Nimrod, Victor tanker and JPs etc
If your over come and say Hi, just ask around for the Phantomstreaker..
This Sunday 26th August 12 is the 2nd Cold War Jets open day at Bruntingthorpe Proving Ground in Leicestershire. All wellcome £15 per adult on the gate from 10am.
usual mix of fast taxi runs from Buccaneers, Lightnings, Canberra, Hunter, Nimrod, Victor tanker and JPs etc
If your over come and say Hi, just ask around for the Phantomstreaker..
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The Bucc arrived in Shannon yesterday.
Hopefully the gopping European Air Charter scheme will make way for something a bit more tasteful, Raspberry ripple , hopefully!.
Still, it's an welcome addition to any growing collection, a shame it will probably never fly again.
Hopefully the gopping European Air Charter scheme will make way for something a bit more tasteful, Raspberry ripple , hopefully!.
Still, it's an welcome addition to any growing collection, a shame it will probably never fly again.
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Reminds me of the time when I was on OO at Honington and I had a query one summer's evening from the local press about a Bucc going down the A11.
"Muck fee" I thought, I know those buggers push the envelope but that's ridiculous. I muttered some sort of official sounding ****e and it was only after I put the phone down that it came to me that it probably was on the back of a truck and not flying.
Such was the mystique of Bucc operations!
"Muck fee" I thought, I know those buggers push the envelope but that's ridiculous. I muttered some sort of official sounding ****e and it was only after I put the phone down that it came to me that it probably was on the back of a truck and not flying.
Such was the mystique of Bucc operations!
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sisemen,
There was no mystique - it was just bloody good fun!
MSF,
Maybe so but they must have asked for it and (like the Buccaneer Aircrew Association with XX901 at YAM) paid for it and its move so why else would they want it other than to depict it in its true colours! However, if it does have only a Tornado nose cone then somebody might have been duped by a clever salesman and raspberry ripple might be more appropriate!
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Such was the mystique of Bucc operations!
MSF,
location and some of the local populations leanings
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