Hello Everyone, welcome to the channel
A bit about me and the channel, I learned to fly long ago, but as with all things in life, fate had other ideas.
After many years away from flying, I have decided to try and get back into aviation by sharing my love of it here on KZread.
I honestly have no idea what I am doing, I have never written scripts before, or edited videos, If i make mistakes I hope the community will point them out.
I will try to reply to as many comments as I can, even the negative ones :-) If I don't reply, it's not personal, I have to work during the day and weekends to pay the bills and big daddy government.
My interest is in all aspects of aviation and aim to publish at least one video a week and cover aircraft from the WW1, WW2, Korea, Vietnam, Modern day Civil, military, short docs and air crash investigations.
Kind regards
Joe
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An outstanding production. Well researched and well presented. Would be perfect if it were a bit shorter. :-)
As an air cadet I had the opportunity to spend a week at RAF Laarbruch in 1974 and saw a Bucaneer up close. Somehow it reminded me of a fat porpoise. That's not meant in any derogatory way - it was a very curvy aircraft with a streamlined silhouette.
Back in 1970, I was at a boarding school in Kent, miles from anywhere, my mate and I were cutting grass on our football pitch when a Buccaneer and a Sea Vixen came out of nowhere, so low that we both just hit the ground! That started my love of aircraft!
The first time the Buccs took part in Red Flag, the pilots were informed of the operational height. They were shocked; "What's the matter, don't you guys fly that low"? To which they replied "We don't normally fly that high". USAF thought this was just talk. Then Buccs came back with phone wires wrapped round them and a number of cactus plants were decapitated. I read that instead of spending so much on TSR2, the RAF could have saved money and developed a supersonic Bucc.
Reg flag stories never fail to amazing me, there is something different about Bucc pilots. I saw the TSR2 in Cosford the other day, what a beast.
Had a wiper blade to clear grass clippings 😂😂
"Nevada" landscape at 49:52 looks remarkably like North West Saudi Arabia..... ask me how I know.
Erm.......no comment.....because you were flying that day?
The Swedes taught the British to fly low….
Fantastic account of a wonderful aircraft flown by the best pilots.We owe a debt of gratitude to these skilled, brave airmen
If you knew a good Buc pilot you could get him to mow your lawn.
I'll have to remember that one.
when attacking shipping the F-111 would fly at about 900 knots at 50 feet (perhaps only 200-100 feet in most training missions). It was fairly common to find tree branches stuck in the engine air inlets.
Sorry but your voice is to drab
That was good, very good. I have to agree, the brick was, and still is, very very missed. To see it at 20ft, 500mph and steady as a rock, coming towards you, is great in scaring the s*** out of you and reinforcing the fact that those pilots, had so much skill in doing it. Great video.
Those pilots were born to fly the Bucc.
Dude... way too much bass on your mic.
Thanks for pointing that out, working on it.
great indepth piece on the Buccaneer...would love to see you cover the Avro CF-105 Arrow
Great suggestion! The list of aircraft which are being requested is getting longer by the day, I will add the Arrow too.
Really good video, and i love all the archive footage you've found and used too! The bucc is one of my absolute all time favorites, shame i never got to see one fly. I did build the airfix 1/48 s2c though, and my god does it look good!
Glad you enjoyed it! I am lucky enough that there is an S2B here in my local RAF museum, it's a real pleasure to go there and.......touch her......don't judge me. :-)
Great aircraft. Very good presentation. Thanks for the information.
Thanks for watching! More to come, I just wish I could research faster and If i stopping messing around with the wording I might be able to get more in depth videos out.
Great video! Struggling to place your accent though…could you enlighten me!?
Back in the 1970s the BBC had an early evening news programme called "Nationwide". On one show they proudly ran a short film of an exercise which showed RAF Buccaneers attacking U.S. defensive positions. We saw the actual screens the Americans were using to try and lock on to the buccaneer jets. They were flying so low and fast they couldn't lock on at all. The Americans were shouting in amazement. One saying he was going outside to take a look. The "Nationwide" presenters had smiles on their faces and were dead chuffed. I must say that I was dead chuffed too.
Wow, not heard that show being mentioned in years, great show. I wonder if the Beeb have that programme in their archives.
If I was in the market for a JET FIGHTER!!! It sooooooo annoys me that you moderns have transposed the two words - and ridiculously so in most cases because you apply them willy-nilly - to MULTI-ROLE aircraft. F4 Phantom - hands down - got up close and friendly with one back in 1988 during a fantastic week in Florida - (which included a VIP invite to see The Shuttle Discovery launch doanchaknow!) On the down side - I've known four guys who not only loved to fly like fighter pilots but also managed to earn enough to buy themselves a Spitfire........ they've all made big impressions in the ground and earnt a free harp to go with their wings.
Aircraft of my childhood living between lossie and kinloss seen them all the time. The aircraft from the petrol station now living at the deer center in fife just a stone throw from me now. An icon.
the Buccaneer - probably the fastest plane ever at 15 feet
British engineers will be given a specification sheet detailing everything including exactly how many stitches the seat may have, a time frame you can't even play monopoly in and a budget of £1 5' 2d yet still create something revolutionary, effective and iconic. Plus it'll likely be built by 2 men in a shed fueled by bacon, beer and the occasional ciggie.
Every invention ever worth its salt was built by 2 men in a shed fueled by beer, bacon sarnies, Tea, a roll up and oily overalls, I can see the spirit of Fred Dibnah every time I read about these machines.
me dad said it was his favourite aircraft, completely underrated.
Your dad, a man of taste and culture, how anyone not love the Bucc.
@@AviationRepublic he worked on them for decades in the fleet air arm, he said it wasn't uncommon for him to scrub fish remains of the leading edges, and got a ride in one which he says was a high point in his career.
Brilliant video. As a plane obsessed teenage boy ,I remember seeing TV footage of the bombing in Iraq,and double taking when saw the Bucaneer taking part next to Tornadoes and Jaguars. What a legendary plane.
Thank you so much, very kind of you. I remember those too, the RAF pilots being interviewed by the beeb, describing the low level sorties, with all the details of being fire upon by everything and every one. Balls of solid Tungsten
I remember as a schoolboy returning home one morning from doing my paper round when I lived in Thetford, Norfolk, not far from RAF Honington where Bucaneers were based. I heard an awfully loud noise outside and on going out into the road near the house saw a Bucaneer flying down the road on the estate below roof height! Apparently there was an exercise at Honington and the Buccs had launched and were presumably flying low avoiding radar detection. It scared the hell out of me😁 Some years later when i was on detachment to Goose Bay in Labrador with the Victor tankers bringing the Buccs home from their victory in the Red Flag competition, I stood on top of a hanger to see them flying below between the hangars😬
Built at Brough just up the road from where I live
Gods own country, I feel there are something special about these places, if you stand still and listen, sometimes you feel that you can still hear the them. I am such an old romantic :-)
@@AviationRepublic Absolutely
buccaneers takeoff from a carrier and then descend immediately to operating altitude
Absolutely, I think most of us would have jumped at the chance for a ride I one going like the clappers at full chat 20 feet about the deck.
🌟 #NewSub #datswatsup
Thank you.
I've always had a soft spot for the Buccaneer, beautifully ugly and astoundingly good at what it did. the fact that the yanks couldn't touch it is just a bonus.
You bet, I think most aviation enthusiasts love the Bucc, shes hard not to love. I was around my local museum once again today giving the Bucc a good looking at.
The superlative quality of the RNAS Pilots cannot be overstated.
Thank you for making this dude. It got me through my history homework
Great vid. Remember seeing them leave RAF Manston after and Airshow, take off followed by lov level beat up of the runway and departing low level via pegwell bay.
Thank you very much, appreciated.
Radar amd missile limitations of the late 60s and 70s required low level flight profiles. A correction to your statement about the F104. It was a superb strike fighter. The high wing loading and power made it even faster and easy to fly low level. Once nuclear strike was converted to conventional munitions the 104 was unsuitable with its limited payload.
F104 were horrible according to literally every pilot
@@datcheesecakeboi6745 As former 104 pilot I can assure you that the fast majority of us loved flying the aircraft. I certainly had friends that died doing the job. Flying low level in Central Europe in the mountains, often poor weather conditions took skill. It wasn't always the aircraft's fault. Many of us enjoyed and thrived on the challenge. Imagine yourself doing something well that takes skill and the satisfaction that might come from that. You really haven't experienced life until you have flown supersonic at 50 feet.
Amazing how often “but a Labour government…” pops up to occlude the development and success of the amazing aircraft developed in Britain during the fifties and sixties.
And it was a Labour Government that ended our Space Programme and passed all our know-how to the French. Thanks Tony Benn!
Why do you have to tempt me like this to throw my two cents into the ring,,,,,,,,,nope gonna stay out of it ;-)
How the hell do you get a plane of that size from Brough to Holme on Spalding Moore? Guessing those trees on the A1034 have grown since.
Slowly, carefully and in lots of pieces. I did have a map of the route a few months back, but I managed to lose track of it.
My uncle worked on Buccaneer at Lossiemouth. He told me that they had engine power loss problems at rotate speed on the take off run, and catch nets were fitted at the end of the runways. The ejector seats were also a problem at times, with random ejections occurring and one situation where a bird strike caused the nav to eject but left the pilot in the aircraft. I guess these would be S1 versions. I don't know how much of this was true but he was a respetcable man.
It would have been shot down. Phantom II.
has aim7 and a mediocre radar
My grandfather, mother and father all worked for some or all of; Blackburns, Hawker Sidley & BAE at Brough. Of all the aircraft my dad worked on, the Buccaneer always had a special place in his heart.
Wow, you must have some great stories about the Buccaneer. I think we will be a poorer country if we do not keep these stories alive and remain proud of what we have as a nation achieved in the realm of aviation.
Great video! Love the details!
Thank you very much, really appreciated, Makes the long hours of combing through research material worth it.
I was assigned to Nellis AFB Nevada when both the Buccaneers and Vulcan bomber were there for Red Flag, At the time I was a technician on F-15A aircraft. I found both RAF aircraft quite fascinating. Years later I saw the Buccaneers in their Desert Storm livery.
They are indeed very unique aircraft, however, there are so many aircraft from the U.S that are simply superb, I have a video coming out soon on one of them, once i stop messing around with the script.
Great video, nicely put together. I spent most of my RAF time on the Bucc fleet at RAF Honington, ASF & 208 Sqn. Laarbruch ASF & XV Sqn. Work with 237 OCU & Victors at Marham on IFR. Finally at Lossiemouth with 208 Sqn. Fell in love with this airframe on my first posting and loved all my time. It was a sad weekend in 1994 when the Bucc was finally taken out of service from Lossie as the Tornados took over. The Buccaneer was and aircraft flown by warriors and maintained by gods. :) Once again great video.
I was on 700z nas at Lossiemouth with the pre production mk 1’s, I remember an exercise with the French where they refused to play because our pilots wouldn’t climb to 200ft so that they had a chance of zapping them. Was also on 801 nas on the victorious. I quite literally watched the tiny v aerial on top of the fin slide down the side of the angle deck as the pilot tucked under it. Fun fact the mk 2 was slower than the mk 1 as it had larger intakes that held it back🇬🇧😊
The Torrey Canyon episode was a disaster for the Navy. BP wanted to get a tanker alongside and pump the oil off. They Navy said no, we'll bomb it. Which is what they did, releasing the oil into the sea.
And the sheep abort through shock....
Sheep were not happy.
True story. 40 years ago I was SAM missile battery commander, when Buccaneer, Mirage 3RZ and Impala MB326 conducted simulated attacks on us during an "Golden Eagle" exercise. The spotter could not see the aircraft approach at fast speed. Only after the aircraft had gone whoosh past us below eye level in a very shallow valley 80m away, did the spotter confess, "Oh, I thought they were cows!" 🐄🐄🐄😁
Hahaha, that had me laughing, makes you wonder how fast cows move in his neck of the woods.
many trhanks, great video
Thank you very much, really pleased you enjoyed the video