When the Fleet Air Arm handed over our Buccs to the RAF we had them repainted in sludge green/brown camouflage. What we also did was repaint the bomb bay and add suitable decals. It doesn't say much for the RAF maintainers that they missed a very obvious "addition". The RAF having taken over RNAS Fulmar (I think) and renamed it as RAF Lossiemouth decided it would be a great idea to have an air display which included this wonderous low flying bomber with its rotating bomb bay. So the RAF pilot screams in low from the sea approach down the main runway, banks the aircraft to display the bomb bay in action. Bomb bay open in full view of the gathered RAF dignitaries and what do they see in the open bomb bay. Day glo orange decals spelling out FLY NAVY.

What all these classic British aircraft had in common : They all looked damn good !

Great aircraft made back in the day when Britain had an aircraft industry

Without KZfaq I never would have seen all these British aircraft...it took me 60years to get to today!

I was at that Red Flag in the late seventies. I was there from Langley AFB, Virginia with our F-15s. They were in a hangar next to us. I went over had a look and had nice chat with one of the guys. I asked if I could take a picture and an officer said ok but not to get the ECM pod in the frame. Good memories. Long live the RAF and USAF.

Nice to hear Harry Enfield getting some voiceover work.

Probably the best low level attack jet built to date. They constantly confounded American fighters in exercises.

We had Buccs launch from Akrotiri to go "somewhere". When they came back, one of them have a trailing wire. When we in ATC informed him, he said not to worry it's only a telephone wire.

Just like the cars, the Brit designed some of the most beautiful and strange aircraft of the 20th century. Always quirky and unconventional. Love from france 🇫🇷

The aircraft to pull on the leg of the mighty Tomcat... F14 gun alignment is few degrees upward, so when they actually found and got behind Buccaneer rubbing its belly on desert floor and kicking up dust, Tomcat just couldn't aim down enough to get a kill without hitting the deck themselves... must have been really frustrating 😅 Buccaneer being like:" you see me down ear? Too bad you can touch me down ear mate? 😘"

And Britain threw all of it's skill and talent away😢

Awesome mate!.. I fell in love with the Buccaneer when HMS Eagle visited NZ in the early 70's 👍✈️.. cheers from down under 🇳🇿

Not a 'classic beauty', but the Buccaneer has been a favourite of mine for .... about as long as I have been alive (and I was born a year or two after the design phase), just a stunning aircraft.

Last time I saw Buccaneers was in the late 70's beating up Loch Ryan in Stranraer , they were Goose pimple invigorating stuff seeing them in Low level formation , they were the Business..then some years later My local Breakers yard was Smelting down broken Bucks for their Alloy , an Ejector seat went in an it Blew up the furnace an shed , it turned out that the Exsplosive seat charges had not been removed ..Great vid on a Real true Aircraft of its time.

First one I ever saw was at less than 100 feet flying over Loch Ness. I always wanted to join up, and that flight gave me a nudge in the right direction.

Great use of area rule on the airframe envelope. A proper, optimised transonic aeroplane.

That is STILL one mean-looking bird. I remember in the '70s, standing at the headland near Donaghadee, Northern Ireland when two RN Buccaneers flew right by us, low level out over the sea and they acknowledged me waving at them by waggling their wings. Free air display!

Smashing video. Thank you!

What these gentlemen forgot was that the South-African Airforce operated the Buccaneer during the Bush War between 1966 -1989. The Buccaneer SAW heavy combat with the South-Africans and did a superb job. Most notably during the battle of Cassinga where it was tasked with destroying a Cuban armored column.

Blackburn had produced it's fair share of duds. But this, it's swansong, was a genuine masterpiece. Initially underpowered with those wheezing Gyron juniors, it came into it's own with the Spey engines. Hypnotised by the dazzling TSR2, The RAF had deliberately ignored it's potential, but came to love the Buccaneer.

Very Very Nice Jet

Rear airbrakes just awesome 😮

The buccaneer.. the only aircraft you had to raise the undercarriage to decend to its crusing altitude

One of the best low-level Intruders ever built. Imagine what they could do with modern engines and a modern electronic sweet.

Down to 100 feet "or so"....the joke was they had to climb to get room to put the wheels down

WOW 😲, WHAT AN AMAZING AIRCRAFT!!! The Buckaneer and the A-10 Warthog are pretty similar, very amazing 🤩 💞 🤩 aircraft. In my opinion, two of the toughest and most capable planes ever built for war conditions!!! Thanks 👍.

Pity you dont mention the sterling service of the Bucc in the SAAF

Four Bucc's carrying out a coodinated low level, high speed airfield attack from four different directions was a sight to see. I was only ever on the receiving end during exercises and once at an airshow, but by the time you reacted they were back in the mess with a G&T.

I was on the Hermes in late 70’s i was on Gannets, the other aircraft were Buccaneers and Sea Vixens, if you were below decks you knew when a Buccaneer had landed by the thump it made!

Absolutely Beautiful. Very emotional story. Amazing

I remember those distinctive inlets from probably the very first airshow I ever went to, in the Netherlands. Pictured with my very first primitive camera. Until now I didn't really know what it was.

Can one Love an aircraft? YES.

Only countries to fly the Bucc were Britian and South Africa. Great plane. Knew some of the pilots and navs who flew her. Many missions into Angola and even one against the Russian supplied radars in Mozambique.

When I used ski up north in Scotland, if I'm not mistaken, when you were on the ski lift these use to fly below you. You literally sat looking down on them, you could see into the cockpit from above as they banked side to side squeezing along the valley.

Blackburns Boiler plate Bomber,, built like a Tank

With the loss of Bruntingthorpe as an active airfield, the Buccaneers have had their wings clipped and there are no more runway demos. I wonder if organisation can return one to the air or is it just too much money and we will have to have memories and films,

Fantastic arie and carried a punch as saaf proved in Angola. There is one on display at the war museum in Johannesburg.

Looks and sounds to be a wonder of a killer aircraft

I once saw a video of the U.S war games where these knocked the spots of the Yanks. In one scene the Americans had to hit the deck the Buccs were so low, lots of appreciative expletives followed. My favourite meaty (due to its carrier role) piece of UK flight engineering. Pity none are flying these days😢 . The last of the pilot's rides, replaced by the computer generation.

As a kid at Fraserburgh academy in the late 60s early 70s you could see them doing bombing runs off the coast from the top storey classrooms. Didn’t learn much when that was happening

70s Red Fleg kicking us dust 🇺🇲🇬🇧💯🤟 we're talking Aggressor Squadron/Clint Eastwood Firefox guys chasing her in TomCats 🇺🇲🇬🇧💯

Not the aircraft the RAF wanted, but it was amazing over 22,000 lbs of thrust and was still sup-sonic. The USN A-5 Vigilante made Mach 2 on similar class engines, though with afterburners fitted.

Wonderful planr

.... how does that old joke go .... "Where are your Buccaneers ?" ... "inside me buccan 'elmet !" .... (thank you 'Stanley' ).

To say, at Red Flag, 'they had never seen airplanes flying at 100 feet in the late 70's", was very incorrect. The F-111 routinely flew at 1 to 200 feet, and more so, at night. We would start out each Red Flag that way but then the exercise planners would raise the hard deck to 500 or 1000 feet to give them something for the F-15's to track, which was an emasculation of our capabilities. Then when the Buccaneers came in it was tough to do the same as they were guests. When the Aussies brought the F-111C models with Pave Tack to the party in 2006, the same courtesy had to be given, but I'm sure there was the same feeling of "it's not fair".

Ahhh, my buccaneers! those engines are loud.

Beast

6:31 Still looks Buck Rodgers 👽

Love these old classics, but why is all the old content getting shown again?

If the RAF weren't so infatuated with the TSR.2, they could have gotten the Buccaneer by 1964-1965 with a truly modern low-altitude interdiction airplane for attacks just behind the Iron Curtain in case of war. And it would have tided them over until the early 1980's, when the Tornado started to enter service.

Pity there was no-one from the Fleet Air Arm to talk about its original service at sea. The Royal Advertising Force strikes again!

Loved that plane from kid seeing at Farnborough air show. another big mistake by the ministry. The same as the Harrier, could have been developed further, No we bought American C++++. Politics what that smell

How many of these did the Royal Navy lose over the side? MOD will never reveal! The WAFU's revenge?

Extreme low level nuke deployment...

Interesting aircraft. why is that backside so fat?

Only beaten by the harrier gr7 .only because I served with them.😂

"The last of the all British built..." Thats very depressing to hear. Why must it be the "last" or the "last British built"? Isnt that conceding something will never be again?

If these were still in service in 1982, we could have bombed the Argies night and day.

Nice but crash too often

There was never a need for the Tornado. The combination of Buccaneer, Jaguar and Harrier could have covered all bases until the 2020s. That would have freed up cash to develop an air superiority fighter to fly both for the RAF and RN and had it in service two decades before the Typhoon entered service. The Tornado was always a Euro integration political aircraft and was too fragile and short ranged for the UK. The Buccaneer and a development of it was the perfect fit but politics dictated otherwise.

All one needs to say is; TSR2.

Pity you are so behind the times regarding Brunty.

I wish the UK could provide these to the Ukrainian Air Force. Even 62 years after being introduced, they would still provide devastating effects against the Russian invaders. A truly remarkable and beautiful aircraft.

зато сейчас у англичан, ничего нет. ничего.😅😅😅😅😅

1:53 "It was very effective" This guy is full of it. To call such a complicated and specific maneuver "very effective" without it ever being tested in genuine wartime conditions is indicative of this man's bias.