Bucc Tanking a Tristar
 

Can anyone please supply a photo of this legendary event? There use to be one on the the wall at ETPS

http://www.pprune.org/military-aircr...tanking-2.html

Check out this previous thread - you may get a lead from the replies last time round

Bish

I am pretty sure there used to be one in the 101 Sqn crewroom. But that was when they were south-side at BZN. It my have been lost or damaged with their continual north-side, south-side shuffling in recent years.

Roly, that was an RNZAF A-4 refuelling the TriStar:


The same A-4 also refuelled the VC10K from which the photo was taken. There was also a VHS tape of the session, which the boss kept under lock and key and would never let it out of his sight.

One day he let us watch it with him, but was called away by his PA.....

The instant he left the crewroom, we quickly set up the squadron portable videorecorder, made a tape-to-tape transfer, then disconnected everything and were a picture of complete innocence by the time the boss came back - he never suspected a thing....:E

I managed to transfer the tape to DVD 7 years ago; so here is the view from the VC10K shortly before the deed was done:


Sorry, Jim! But you should really have known better than to have left the tape with us, even for just the few minutes you were out of the crewroom...:\

I don't have a print, but the photo is reproduced in Graham Pitchfork's excellent book "The Buccaneers"

I have the photo just scanned from the aforementioned excellent book and ready to upload but haven't the foggiest how to do that. When I try to insert it as an image associating it to a Picasa URL nothing appears in the Preview page!



Foldie:suspect:

Many thanks, airpolice, for your assistance.

Not the best quality image, I'm afraid, but scanned from the aforementioned excellent book by Graham Pitchfork.

Foldie:cool:

[wind up]Cough, photoshop, cough[/wind up]

Brilliant! :ok:

MightyGem

It's quite real and dates from before the days of Photoshop.

But why?
 

Why is a Bucc refuelling the Tristar? :confused:

Because it can.

I walked into that I suppose. Anyone care to elaborate

Because it was there....

ORAC, I hereby award you this weeks' prize for wit.

Not wit but in the spirit of the time which has, sadly, appear to have disappeared. Another instance to my knowledge was Sea Vixen to Valiant.

Thought you might like this Scimitar to Buccaneer http://usera.ImageCave.com/scouse/80...66_(25)(2).jpg

AF http://usera.ImageCave.com/scouse/Co...uggedin(1).jpg

Gem, you might need to explain to the less-IT-savvy contributors the significance of putting stuff in square brackets with a forward slash. FWIW, I larfed.

BEagle, having seen another vid - is there any reason why the Tristar wasn't barrel-rolling while plugged-in?

MightyGem

How dare you, Sir! Doubt my integrity, Sir!

We could do anything in my day!

Foldie:E

The Buccaneer was, is and always will be 'The Last of the Few' - check out the The Buccaneer Songbook for full lyrics!