Love the Buccaneers , and living not far from Yeovilton, used to see them regularly in the 70s & 80s. The one with Fly Navy painted on its underside “exercising” over the airfield often comes to mind as I pass by. The 2 pilots of them, that I knew well, would always extol its stability and low level virtues.

The Buccaneer has all the best nicknames and one liners! Such a magnificent aircraft. “Take off, pull up the wheels and descend to operating altitude” 😀 “The banana bomber” “The underground attackers” I read the book “Phoenix Squadron” by Rolland White in 2011, so many hilarious moments in that book, well worth a read.

Fascinating talk. The Buc has never really had any replacement in my opinion.

"Underground attackers"! 🤣

Probably the most interesting yet - I have seen all of yours. Fsscinating.

I’ve been reading a lot about the Buccaneer recently, so this is perfect!

Actually, I flew in a Buccaneer (ZU-BCR) in Aug 2009 at Thunder City through the mountains and along the valley floor then over to the south tip of the cape low level over the sea...then 2 days later experienced 60,000ft in a lightning T5 in the exact same plane that crashed later in Nov with the same pilot Dave Stock...An experience that sadly cannot be repeated now by a civi.

Remember the Buccaneers being grounded in 81 at RAF Laarbruch.

Love the Bucc and the aircrew thereof. Also Mike….over 3k likes in just 2 hours of posting video. Superb stuff.

Great interview per usual. I also didn’t know there there were so many RAF crew flying on carriers. Brilliant aircraft, beautiful in many ways. Back in the 70s read in my father’s copy of Air Clues about the Buccaneer’s wonderful performance at Red Flag. Noticed one of the photographs was of a XV squadron aircraft, my father’s old old squadron.

I was at Honington when the first repaired Bucc came back from the main spar problems, we were sat on the bus waiting to cross the runway to go to the bomb dump and in the distance saw something low coming in with much dirty smoke.........it screamed down the runway at max chat and at about twenty foot, also remember one, 431? breaking the sound barrier at Lossie.

Ace! What a guy & what an aircraft!

As a general note - I love the way the interviewer asks a question - then actually listens to the reply. As a secondary note, I've watched a few of these videos and - this is my perception, I might be wrong - I just don't think this lad realises how ready we were for the 'Big One'. I joined the Territorial Army in 1979 and 'going nuclear' was seen as the normal end game. It's amazing that the young folk don't realise how near we were to the edge. Thank (whatever your invisible Sky Person is) that the Soviet economy was unable to keep up with the West and thank your Invisible Sky Person that even if they could - the corruption would negate their output. In one of the big NATO exercises in Germany we had to do three days in total NBC (Nuclear Biological Chemical) kit, trying to sleep with a respirator on is pretty shit. And talking of shit - well, let's not go there. The Big Option - 99 Red Balloons - dominated the subconscious, even the Fat Slags (of Viz fame) knew there was death in the air.

Great interview, lovely bloke.

Another great interview Mike - roll on part 2!

Fantastic interview amazing piece of history

Fantastic!

Love it!

The brick was a beast

Brilliant British Bomber.

Such a strange looking bird… I love it.

The RAF acting in the Fleet Air Arm was a really unknown thing to me - I’d be interested to know more

The Underground Attackers 🤣

At last

Brilliant thanks for sharing . Btw your voice sounds like Matt Baker from the country file 😊 Regards Dave from Scotland

Nuclear bucaneer! For many reasons that sounds very unsafe. Nice looking airplane it's on display at Hnedon and you can see right into the cockpit.