Buccaneer XX894 From The Cockpit

That would explain it then! Its such a shame when people, and indeed the RAF during the decommissioning process, or just by pure vandalism decide to chop through wiring.

Ollie

I agree Mr Suckling, we have a mountain of rewiring to do on our Bucc, XX889, indeed to the state that we would really need to employ a full time sparky/lecky/fairy!!!! Aaaarrrghh!!!

Plazz,

That would explain it then! Its such a shame when people, and indeed the RAF during the decommissioning process, or just by pure vandalism decide to chop through wiring.

On lindy we had that problem with the Omega Navigation System, a loom about 50 wires thich chopped just before the plug. Alot of hard work goes into rewiring! Fortunatly a lot of the other systems like the Radar, HF radio etc were left intact and other systems just had the boxes nicked. Luckily we managed to scrounge/scrape/borrow all of the taken boxes back.

Probably a wise idea not to reactiviate the radar, we still run ours, but only when there is nobody else on the museum site, for obvious reasons!

Will pop over and say hi next time we are down,

Ollie

Andy,
I did notice the difference in food between the two groups eating arangements when i came to the Antident run. You guys sat there eating sandwiches and i later walked past the Bucc guys facility.

So no toasted or flame grilled super cars this time? 🙂 🙂

Well you see we are the die hards on site, no messing about with fancy eating facilties, flask of tea and a cheese butty is all we bother with.
We take 5 mins for lunch they take 2 hours 😀

No messing with these lightning boys you know 😀 QRA and all that old fruit 😉

Better not upset them to much, their shackles are on our jet pipe trolley

😀

Well done Fransis, assume the top class dosh you lads were munching on at lunch, helped 🙂

See you next time

Andy B

Andy,
I did notice the difference in food between the two groups eating arangements when i came to the Antident run. You guys sat there eating sandwiches and i later walked past the Bucc guys facility.

So no toasted or flame grilled super cars this time? 🙂 🙂

That’s good news Plazz we were down at Bruntingthorpe for the open day and were watching you when you were trying to light up the engines, I recall one went and the other one wouldn’t. I assume you got the problem sorted?

I notice that the Artificial Horizon was not erect, are the flight instruments next on the list?

Again brilliant to see her moving again and she looks fantastic

Ollie

Saturdays run was done on one engine (starboard) as unfortunately the one you saw not starting correctly during the open day has to come out again for more rectification work 🙁

As for the flight instruments not working, the reason behind this is quite straight forward. When we started out XX894 had hundreds of disconnected, cut and sabotaged wires throughout the airframe. As a precaution we elected to remove all of the non-essential fuses from the aircraft until such time that the re-wiring was carried out. This exercise was completed about 12 months ago but we are only reactivating each system as we require them. The flight instruments will be reactivated and checked but some systems such as the radar and HF radio will never be made live again due to safety reasons.

More footage from the run can be seen here:

http://s44.photobucket.com/albums/f39/plazzdaman/?action=view&current=XX894.flv

Excuse the quality as it was taken with a camera phone and must be credited to fellow team member A. Webber

Plazz

Well done to all the team that have brought this fine old girl back to life! The footage was excellent and makes regular pics boring… well almost!1 Does this mean we can look forward to pics and clips of a Bucc pairs run next summer?

Well done Fransis, assume the top class dosh you lads were munching on at lunch, helped 🙂

See you next time

Andy B

What can I say apart from Im jealous that Im not sat in her as she moves but also fantastic stuff. Keep up the good work.

Nice one guys, drove past you as you were towing her out yesterday evening and heard her from the pub so figured you were successful!

Thats good news Plazz we were down at bruntingthorpe for the open day and were watching you when you were trying to light up the negines, i recall one went and the other one wouldnt. I assume you got the problem sorted?

I notice that the Artifical Horizon was not erect, are the flight instruments next on the list?

Again brilliant to see her moving again and she looks fantastic

Ollie

That clip is really impressive Plazz because for the first time I can truly understand why all the hard work is being done to keep all sorts of classic jets in taxy condition. A complex piece of engineering alive instead of being crushed and melted down in to ingots. Well done to all the hard workers.