Under the RADAR: The Blackburn Buccaneer

The Blackburn Buccaneer, later known as a Hawker Siddeley Buccaneer , was a successful subsonic Royal Air Force and Royal Navy jet attack aircraft, designed for low level attacks.

Kris Hendrix offers us an insight in to this Gulf War veteran Buccaneer, now in Hangar 6 at the RAF Museum London.

As this was a trial video, some mistakes crept in while making this video.
1. The Buccaneer was also intended for maritime/ship attacks by the RAF; this was not just a RN role.
2. Boundary Layer Control (BLC). This was a means of reducing the approach and landing speeds and, for short runways and when heavy, reducing take-off speeds. BLC was not used for low level flight.
3. The ‘refuelling pod in the nose’ should have been called a 'refuelling probe'.

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