Blackburn Buccaneer: A Cold War Legend 

Thanks for this. Always good to hear informed opinions.

I love the Sea Vixen & the Scimitar too.

No it’s not. It’s full of inaccuracies

Because a higher altitude interceptor could track the trail and plan an attack.

If it had worked and met budget on time. Sound familiar?

@@bfc3057 The RAF rejected the idea because they were so obsessed with the TSR.2. The design work of the TSR.2 dates from around 1956!

@@Sacto1654 it was nothing more than a drawing that nobody knows whether it would have worked, been on cost and on time. We know the TSR2 didn't meet any of these.

Jaguar entered service in 1973 and it was supersonic.

@@brokeandtired short range and low payload

Great story.

The det cord also weakens the canopy, so, should detonation fail, the pilot can still be ejected through it with comparatively minimal injury, just imagine the bolts failing on a one piece canopy...

if anyone ever finds it I think we wil all be so grateful.

Yep bloody annoying throughout the script and makes me doubt the knowledge/credibility of the author…

That sounds so implausible as to be more than faintly ridiculous I’m afraid.

@@neilturner6749Till implausable becomes plausable . Apparrently actually occured , same implausable occurence as when the Vulcans bombed America 3 out of 3 times in excersises even with everything in the air looking for them sneaking into American airspace - apparently the last time this occured the Vulcasn landed after bombing Washington just to make sure they knew they were there .

@@neilturner6749 Oh - and when it comes to America - Implausable goes out the window - WW2 could have ended over 12 months earlier as the RAF Lancaster squadron sat waiting to go drop " The Bomb " on Japan - BUT NO - American ego meant the war raged on and thousands were killed as America built a plane so they could do it themself . Imagine , politicians ego's overiding " life " .....

Leave it to uncle Sam to lose for fighting on the cheap.😂😂😂

@@DaveMorgansghost It gets worse - WW2 could have ended a year earlier but the Americans wanted to build their own plane to drop " the bomb " on Japan . RAF had a squadron of Lancasters waiting to do the job for them but they had to do it themself at the cost of 1000's of lives ...

Yes it’s awful footage literally watching the Scimitar crew drown. Thankfully I don’t think the Bucc accident was so “well” filmed.

Well, it would have had to have been heavily upgraded indeed - but, yeah, your point still stands!

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No… Tandem is ONE BEHIND THE OTHER as in the Buccaneer. Side by side is you and a passenger in a two seater car… side by side…

Was supposed to be side by side but ended up being built with a tandem arrangement. Just the opposite of the B-52. The XB-52 has tandem seats, like all B-47s.

As always, the answer isn't some daft conspiracy. Its political short-sightedness, corporate incompetance and an inability to adapt to a changing world. The 1957 defence white paper that proposed that figher production should be cancelled in favour of ground to air rockets is in hindsight profoundly stupid. But its also easy to see why that was enticing as a cost saving measure to politicians not versed in pros and cons of air defense and wanting to look like they're trimming some unneeded 'flab' from the budget for the general public. The UK industry was also slow to modernise, meaning slow production and raised production costs. The Comet has coach built. Each airframe slightly different. An issue that would later plague the Nimrod MR4A program. (Also unlucky finding out the hard way about pressurisation cycles and fatigue) Leading to another issue in that its UK aircraft companies were small. Bristol would have sold its Brittania airliner to TWA but it just didn't have the capacity to fulfill that potential order. Merging many to form BAC was probably a smart thing to do (in concept at least) but then the lack of political will to see a project through -and constant problem in the UK where politicians fail to look beyond the next election- killed any long-term strategic planning to short-sighted cost cutting that often turned out to be more expensive in the long run. (*cough* TSR-2 to F-111K to Spey engined F-4 *cough*) This also meant that the UK had little to offer the outside world. Gone were the days it had a big empire that would slavishly buy its products (or the need of a big airforce needed to police it) and because its domestic market just wasn't big enough to sustain the increasingly high development and production costs per airframe, the UK had to go toe-to-toe with other countries to survive. Or rather, one big one: The USA. The USA has the size to sustain its own domestic aircraft industry and the wealth to fund it and politicians willing to fight to keep production. It had companies that were large enough to fulfill large production runs, tilting the economies of scale in their favour. And as the Lockheed scandal shows, they didn't always play fair.

@@chrishartley4553 you’re right. England is small. As far as daft conspiracies, I do find it counterproductive and outright suicidal, for a once homogenous nation, to lay down their children’s future to alter of multiculturalism by flooding the nation with individuals who will never assimilate.

@@chrishartley4553In fairness when we ( Britain) joined the Eu we were told ‘ You get banking , France gets agriculture and Germany get industry . It didn’t help that Germany and Japan were totally decimated after the war and rebuilt with state of the art industries with the latest most productive capacity while we were still using Victorian age machinery we could not afford to upgrade and had been patched up too many times .

@@pincermovement72 Divviying up agticulture, banking and industry like that makes no sense and was just some glib nonsense, referring to the percieved strenghts of those countries, served up for the press and public. The UK's finances post-war were atrocious and yet, still better than Germany's and Japan's. The modernisation would be something that would happen over a few decades, spreading the cost. But ultimately, with no empire left, our small national market isn't big enough to sustain a large industiral base. So we became reliant on exports. And in our own complaicency, we became uncompetative. All it takes is some investment. To make a pound you need to spend some pennies. Something the UK continues to be awful at.

The Americans took all our money while forgiving Germany and Japan theirs .

It’s complicated world “power-play” economics but in a nutshell we were perfectly legally but quite deliberately bankrupted by the US.

Have you any other criticism for the poor chap, have you actually tried to create anything and post it for the enjoyment of others..

@@alanwayte432 Nothing wrong with correcting someone. It’s important to get names and forms of address correct especially regarding the armed forces.

... boring!

Yes Alan, I have. I hosted a technical aviation website and when I did make factual errors, I was glad that people pointed them out and gave me the opportunity to correct them.

It's ai generated BS

That's sad