Flying Stations Buccaneer S2 out now

bruce448 said:
A work in progress


XW988 belonged to RAE West Freugh, the scheme depicted shows the aircraft in the RAE colours prior to going to the Raspberry Ripple scheme.


West Freugh had 3 Buccs in their inventory especially built for test use. These aircraft kept the small S1 type bomb bays and no facility for IFR.



Bruce
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Actually you mean non tanked bomb door, the carrying capacity for munitions was same.

Flight refuelling probe was a bolt-on.

We used to keep a few slick doors for emergency replacement when the tanked doors leaked fuel.!

XN 974 was last Bucc I worked, a Bae/Rae test hack from West Freugh.

Ttfn

Pete
 
As an avid S.1 fan and having known not to try a ski jump with a "heavy" load shall we say.. I'm now looking forward to much more thrust with the Spey's. Many thanks to The Flying Stations Guys and all that took part! If I can say one thing is that tonight I'm posting now with the New S.2 on the catapult, (paused fsx but ready to go), I've got that buzz that we get from a new bird, and If "Rich" is up there then this is for you mate!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jv8prm4mGEQ

Best 2nd gen Low level tactical nuclear bomber ever, Thank you Flying Stations, one and all! :salute::applause::icon29:

.. Shall post results!
 
JohnC said:
I took her out for a quick flight yesterday and had some strange problems. (beautiful bird!)

(All problems were with hardware lever input)
- Speed brake axis was inverted, but functioned normally otherwise.
- Flap axis was mostly normal, except that flaps were fully closed at ~15% position, and full down at both 0% and 100% positions
- Ele Trim axis was inverted, except above ~%90 nose up (input) it switched from nose down output to 100% nose up output and caused an almost immediate stall.

Also, for one of the three sessions the master caution went off, but wouldn't clear even when all the individual lights on the MCP were off (and I was pressing C). Very cool change in pitch on the master caution alarm though!

Kindest Regards,
John

P.S. Slick repaint Bruce!
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If you re-download the installer, I've updated the gauge that controls the trim axis. Mostly by adding a minus sign...
 
Lionheart said:
Ive never seen one of these. Wild...
Any screenshots of the panel?
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Here you go. The VC looks good and has lots of functional gauges and switches. One of the features which I like a lot is the ADD system which produces audio tones linked to the AoA indicator lights! I think $15 is a bargain for this model.
 
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Back around 1983, I was Airboss aboard HMCS Margaree, a Canadian DDH (ASW-helo-carrying destroyer). While working with the NATO Squadron, StaNavForLant (aka "Stanley Foreskin"), I would often hang around the Ship's bridge and pilotage during my non-flying hours. I found I could learn useful things while watching the "Fish-Heads" playing their part in the ongoing War Games.

One of my strongest and fondest memories of those times, was when our vessels were transiting between the Shetlands and the Orkneys, and we came "under attack" by Buccaneers out of Lossimouth. The aircraft were detected to our rear, and they quickly closed towards our "six", weaving back and forth in what I thought at first were purely evasive manoeuvres, but always managing to stay at our Six.

And it soon became aparent that part of *our* tactic was to turn to bring our forward guns to bear, so as to augment the aft gun. But those clever guys in the Bucc's just kept swinging to limit our firepower to the aft gun only. Pure magic to watch these huge, fast "smoking" aircraft cranking large bank angles at such low, low altitudes -- usually 100 to 200 feet! Best noisy, smoky "airshow" I ever saw!

I've always harboured a fondness for "functionally beautiful" aircraft, and Blackburn's Buccaneer kinda epitomizes that definition, I think. Y'know, with that big, beefy landing gear and the big "barn" gear doors to go with them. And that "pregnant" bulge in the after fuselage, to say nothing of those huge, air-brake doors. It made for a really *solid* looking aerodyne!

But enough of my nostalgic babbling. My chief reason for this post is that I stumbled across this rather interesting video on YouTube regarding the history of this lovely aircraft. Worth watching, methinks:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46a-7N_13Sk

A tad lengthy, but interesting nevertheless.
 
Another one to check out is the video from Operation Pulsator; when the Bucc's flew down the streets of Beirut :0
It could fly higher (and lower) than its eventual replacement, the Tornado GR1, and with a higher cruise speed and lower fuel burn, true it was a lump of an aeroplane 63,000lbs max all-up weight; best aeroplane I ever worked on so far.

That bomb bay was very versatile; you could add extra fuel tanks for range or capable buddy tanker; or fit a range of stowage crates
to fly useful things around in while still maintaining use of wing stations (remembering to inhibit bomb door operation !!)


ttfn

Pete
 
I can highly recommend this one!!! :mixedsmi:

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Motormouse said:
Another one to check out is the video from Operation Pulsator; when the Bucc's flew down the streets of Beirut . . . .

Pete
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Pete, Mon Vieux!

I've been looking high and low for such a video, but cannot seem to put a finger on it (them?). Can you possibly give us a steer to the link for the video you describe?

Sounds most tantalizing, after reading through the short write-ups on the incident.
 
Bjoern said:
. . . The liberal use of single-use steel cables just for launching aircraft is simply mind boggling . . . .
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Yeah, the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) -- back when we had such expensive things as carriers -- modeled itself after the RN, right down to those single-use cables going to waste after each and every launch.

As a First-Timer aboard the ship during air ops, probably my very first WTF? moment was seeing all those cables splashing into the sea! If ever there was a simple problem in need of a fix, that was it.

After all, even the Murikens aren't so profligate, are they!?!

I often imagined an exchange like this, after some important battle had been lost:

Board of Enquiry: "Well Captain, were your aircraft serviceable?"
Skipper: "Yes. All were ready to go."
BoE: "Did you have sufficient fuel and armaments?"
Skipper: "Yes, plenty of both."
BoE: "Then why f'god's sake did you NOT launch your aircraft!?!"
Skipper: "Well . . . y'see . . . it seems we had freshly run out of launch cables during our last training exercise,
so we had to leave them sitting on the deck."
 
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