Buccaneers on the move!

If they had received all the upgrades that were planned, they would still be in service.

…and the RAF would not be so stretched in Afghanistan – imagiane what the Buccs would have been like in that area…:eek:

exellent to see, these Buccs are No tonka toy, I imagine it was extremely hard work to get them in this sort of shape,
Great work.,
dare i say Inspirational , and proves what can be done with a little dedication

Thanks for the kind and interesting comments.
For those of you that enjoy seeing Buccaneers on the move, here’s some more footage of both XX894 and XX900 along with several other Buccaneers at the farewell fly past event held at Lossiemouth back in 1994. The video was filmed by XX894’s owner and is the copywrite material of The Buccaneer Trust.

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

I hope this stirs some memories for some of you?!

What a truly amazing achievement to have both of these fine aircraft taxiable once more! Well done to all involved!

The Buccs would still be in service now.

If they had received all the upgrades that were planned, they would still be in service.

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I remember when they gave grants to everyone living near a local airbase, to have double glazing. Then within a year they axed scores of bases. They sold all of the houses at Scampton, then apparantly bought them back!

Does nobody slam them for this waste of money?

yeah they do that with the bases . Spend loads of money on infrastructure and then close them, lyneham will be next

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I love The Buccaneer.

Bit of a sore point. Watching the Buccs on the news in the late 80s and early 90s thrilled me, this was what got me into the hobby (and the BBMF being up the road) sadly I never got to see any flying as my 1st show was in summer 1994, I was still at school.

It seems the MOD have a lunatic policy of spending lots of money updating airframes to make them last longer, ie Bucc, Jaguar, then announcing almost immediately that the type is to be withdrawn. The Buccs would still be in service now.

Is that the two tone camouflage colour scheme with the grey underside Nige?

Correct.

Plazz – any chance of putting it on the 16 Sqn website?

Beef D

No problem, but I’ve had to re-register? I will post as soon as the new account is activated!

Ours is in Desert scheme at the moment, but during the next year/18 months, we are looking to go back to 16Sqn colours, circa 1976/7, one of the first squadrons that she was assigned to.

Is that the two tone camouflage colour scheme with the grey underside Nige?

Does anybody else agree with me that the Buccaneers best paintscheme has to be the Desert cam from Gulf War 1?

Ours is in Desert scheme at the moment, but during the next year/18 months, we are looking to go back to 16Sqn colours, circa 1976/7, one of the first squadrons that she was assigned to.

Does anybody else agree with me that the Buccaneers best paintscheme has to be the Desert cam from Gulf War 1?

How jealous am I, to think that I used to do that for a job, couple of runs a day! 16 Squadron Sooties – Raa-Raa! :diablo:

Oh – and 208 Squadron Sooties Honington as well! 😀

Plazz – any chance of putting it on the 16 Sqn website?

Beef D

My cousin – ex-Buccaneers – is lunching with us this week!

= Tim

nobody filmed the wing fold maybe cause they were over trying to sort out 894’s sticky wing

Quote:
Originally Posted by Plazz
I believe that this is the first time that more than one Buccaneer has taxied in front of a crowd since Lossiemouth 1994? Quite exciting to be a part of if true!

Not true
There are three airworthy Buccaneers in Cape Town.
You can even have a flight in one.
See http://www.thundercity.com
They also have EE Lightnings and Hawker Hunters.

I meant in the UK…True!

Quote:
Originally Posted by Plazz
I believe that this is the first time that more than one Buccaneer has taxied in front of a crowd since Lossiemouth 1994? Quite exciting to be a part of if true!

Not true
There are three airworthy Buccaneers in Cape Town.
You can even have a flight in one.
See http://www.thundercity.com
They also have EE Lightnings and Hawker Hunters.

Why couldn’t the cameraman have caught either one folding its wings?

Instead of a minute or so of both sitting still?

OK, complaint over… I really wish I had been there!

Brilliant stuff indeed… :D:D