A Buccaneer Farewell

Found a copy on Amazon 🙂

or 118 118

wonder if you can obtain a book called ” one hundred and one things to do with duck feathers”

Try Yellow Pages!

why the need for the lowloader? could the aircraft not have been towed?
what is duck oil? how could i get some

The Buccaneer and the 330 are the two widest aircraft we have at present, from what I can gather permission would not have been granted, to be honest we never even asked!

wonder if you can obtain a book called ” one hundred and one things to do with duck feathers”

do you need to remove the feathers first?

duck oil is obtained by inserting lots of ducks through a mangle

why the need for the lowloader? could the aircraft not have been towed?
what is duck oil? how could i get some

Only under cranes 🙁

Nev, you must have great faith in Mr Martin’s lifting frame, although saying that, we have helped move 4 Bucc’s in the past and have always found myself connected to the tailskid by a strop, great fun in high winds 😮 😮

I thought I would add my bit regarding the paint work on XV 361.
Before 208 Squadron disbanded on April 94, a decision was made to paint some of the aircraft in Squadron markings that the Buccaneer aircraft
served with. The tail on 361 was painted in 15 Sq markings, a shame
the Guys in the paint shop did not cover the lower fuse, as this is why
it looks a bit rough. A good wash and rub down with duck oil should help

Only under cranes 🙁

Has Bucc driver served with RN or RAF, or does this person only fly at 12 feet
under cranes?

Buccsociety

Any chance of a pm regarding your cunning plan.

The collection is in storage and is all under cover, at the moment I am not allowed to identify the location! I am sure that a number of people reading this may already be aware of that location; if so please keep it to yourself. When we are in a position to say more, details will be posted!

XV361 was purchased from the Ministry of Defence in 1994 for the sum of £9000, by the Ulster Aviation Society. During her operational life she served on HMS Eagle and HMS Ark Royal; after transfer to the RAF in 1978 she went on to fly with 15 Squadron in Germany and No’s 12 and 208 Squadrons at RAF Lossiemouth.

On the 7th April 1994 XV361 made what was intended to be her last flight when she flew from Lossiemouth to RAF Aldergrove for onward transport by road to the UAS facility at Langford Lodge. Due to logistic problems it was decided that one last flight would provide an easier means of getting the aircraft to its final destination, permission having been obtained XV361 departed Aldergrove at 1100 Hrs on the 18th April 1994 and landed on runway 21 at Langford Lodge 92 seconds later!

This 92 second epic was we believe the shortest planned Buccaneer flight, it was also I believe, the last flight of an RAF Buccaneer in the United Kingdom, whilst under RAF command

I await correction!

Cheers Everyone

Eric

Cool Buccsociety we will be watching with interest!

oh those engines are just begging to be run again

I might have a cunning plan that I will be putting to the UAS once they have found their feet at their new home.

Who actually owned the airframe?

That should read, “who actually OWN’S the airframe”, as she has not been sold, she has just had to move from her old location along with the rest of the collection. The collection is owned by the Ulster Aviation Society.

oh those engines are just begging to be run again

re:

Be nice if went to Scampton.

South Africa?

Who actually owned the airframe?

Sooo, where has she gone?