Buccaneer movie

[canaanchamp]

Found this while looking at some other aviation videos on youtube.

RAF Buccaneer - 12 Squadron Training Film - NATO OPEN GATE - 1978 - YouTube

[herman1rg]

Liking that, always liked the Buccaneer.

[Airframes]

Great find, good stuff !

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

Cool find!

[nuuumannn]

The perro's cojones! The Buccaneer is one ugly aeroplane, but it oozes power. I liked the old photos in the intro, with, rather appropriately the Fairey Fox biplane in colour. The Fox was a two seat day bomber introduced in 1925 and proved faster than the current RAF fighters. It was operated by only one squadron; 12 Squadron, whose Buccs feature in this film. The Fox became the emblem of 12 Sqn and can be seen prominently on the Buccs' intakes.

[Thorlifter]

And what musical instrument makes that squeaky leather sound at the beginning? Who though, "That's reminds me of airplanes, let's put it in the movie". hahaha

Just kidding as I love Vangelis and I have a lot of their music. I actually really like new age classical like Vangelis, Jean Michel-Jarre, Tangerine Dream, Brian Eno, Mike Oldfield, and Isao Tomita.

Pretty cool flick!

[Gixxerman]

The legend was 'carved from solid' back in the day.
The Buccaneer was one very sturdy plane & completely suited to the high speed low level environment.

In my book you can't mention Buccaneer without posting this famous image, afaik this is from a low level pass, not take off.
It's one of my favs, enjoy.

[vikingBerserker]

Way cool!

[Gixxerman]

Well I know it's not a Buccaneer but for low flying this one always makes me giggle.
Some naughty salty language but it's perfectly understandable given the guys shock at what just happened.
Enjoy.

I also know of a tale of the BAe boys playing out in Saudi with Jaguars (my soon to be ex father-in-law was a senior guy for BAe).
Some guys went off to a town on the (typical out there I believe) long lonely straight desert road in a station wagon/estate car thing and at one point into the journey they got over-flown by one of their pals in a Jaguar.
The ventral strakes (so I have been told) squeezed in the roof a tad, he was that low.
Trouser accidents all round I'd bet.

Jags are cool, powerful fast & low beasties.