Chris Kebab,
100% agree, ha! That photograph is in a few toilets I can assure you. Great shot though don't you think? Notice wind speed on the roof!

Shy torque,
Not heard that one, noticed you have edited it also, would you mind telling all or pointing me in the right direction for 'one for the CD?'

Kind regards
Snaps
www.BlackburnBuccaneer.co.uk
www.AvCollect.com

Snapshot,

I don't know an awful lot more but I believe the video was shot by the St. Mawgan flight safety cell. I think it happened in about '92 or '93.

I don't personally have a copy, nor any photos.

The edit was only because I missed a capital letter at the beginning of a sentence!

Another good one was the Bucc that lost its tail in Wales in 1977. Its pilot had pulled 13G in a desperate but successful attempt to miss a Hunter!

Crew safely ejected and finished up in a lake. They amused themselves by seeing how much of the safety equipment they could use before they got fished out.

Another OCU aircraft came back with mud splashes on the underside due to a stude's target fixation on the range whilst delivering a 28lb'er. Close call - the aircraft film of that is probably in an archive somewhere! Or maybe the stude took it with him as he went away never to darken the door again.

ShyT

Visited Brough in 1969 and saw Buccs being built and was gob-smacked at the size of the main spar - carved from solid, by the look of it. I reckoned that the aircraft would last forever, so I was stunned when they were all grounded with cracks back whenever it was. As an F-4 jock in RAFG, the only aircraft that ever flew below us (as in right underneath) were the Buccaneers. I understand, though, that the cockpit was as much an ergonomic mess as the rest of the RAF's inventory. In the 70s a Bucc came off Nordhorn range and was joining up sharpish with his leader. As they got close the nav, with impeccable timing, shouted for a fuel check, so the pilot responded instinctively. I believe that the fuel gauge was somewhere up the pilots armpit with no repeater in the back cockpit....... Fortunately both aircraft survived the collision.

In 69/70 there were some of us at HQ STC and at MOD who thought that an avionic update and new buy of Buccaneers would be better value than what was then called MRCA. This would have left money in the kitty for a decent (ie American) fighter. We were told to belt up and stop rocking the boat in no uncertain terms.

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Love old RT in the middle above.

"I'm not letting 130dB 50' above my head spoil this pose"!

Only joking mate.........

Chris,
I assume your post is regarding my photograph? There are no crew there with initials RT!
If you want to mail me with who you thought it was, I can confirm the rouges.
Regards
Snaps.
www.AvCollect.com

Wasn't there a Dambuster II episode over the Mohne Dam??

You may wish to check out the following site:
For those who love the Bucc!!

http://www.buccaneerclub.co.uk/

Bucc OCU type told me that the brochures for the Bucc S3 were ordered destroyee because the specs made MRCA/Tornado look silly.

Any truth in this. Anyone still got the brochures?

(See picture above)

Oh good God! It's Thrust 2 with wings...

RAF Buchan, 1963. I was waitng to go down the "hole" when 2 buccs came in off the sea, up the access road and UNDER the Type 80. Quite impressive, except the Type 80 was in a little hollow!

If a story is worth telling, then its worth exaggerating - especially you Shy!!!!!Just a small difference in the St Mawgan truth and the story on here.
Low & Slow, sorry to disappoint but, no truth I'm afraid but......
There was a Bucc at Boscombe that was used as a test platform for GR1 avionics and was hidden away after the MRCA came in to service.

Tilt,

Which one and what's your version? I have seen the video and spoken to the pilot of the first tale and was at 237 OCU when the other two happened so I would be interested in the other side of the story(ies).

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Snaps,

Ref your shot - my slowly failing eyesight and a partially shagged 7 year old 14" monitor still make that grin look like Ron T's!

Shy,
Don't get me wrong, just a bit of harmless banter about the way none of us can leave a juicy story as is!!!
The St Mawgan jet story:
Wingman told the aircraft concerned that he was venting fluid - assumed it was fuel so rolled the bomb bay to get rid of it. Wasn't fuel, was hyd fluid and rolling door used up the last of it. Flying controls not affected as it was a different system. Flaps available but not gear. Landing speed was about 165. Wing fuel was transferred by air pressure not hyds but no tanks were on the aircraft, the fire on touchdown was from the bomb door fuel tank and was only residual fuel. Canopy was jettisoned on short finals as the crew expected a fire!
So, close to the truth but as I said before: If a story is worth telling......

Snaps,
When is your CD being published - desperate for a copy! I have a few stories and photos if you're interested - e mail under profile.

T & G

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Tilt,

Well thanks for that! The pilot told me the story the way I posted it so the bullsh*t is all his! Wait till I see him next....

He got a Green Endorsement out of it anyhow.

Shy...
He's coming to work with me soon, I'll give him what for too! We were crewed together for the last few years of the jet - he does like his swinging lampshades doesn't he!

Q. Where do you keep buccaneers?
A. Under your buccin' hat!

Pete208, not ex Fish head are you?

Tilt,

He'd better like swinging wings too, then!

ShyT