Aeroguide - Buccaneer

Author(s): Roger Chesneau

Aviation Overseas

The last combat aircraft designed under the Blackburn Aircraft Company banner, the Buccaneer was a low altitude aircraft carrier based nuclear strike aircraft. The secret to the Buccaneer's success was its ability to fly 'under the radar' at extreme low level before popping up and delivering its 'special weapon' - as nuclear bombs were referred to at the time. Seeing extensive service with the Royal Navy, the Buccaneer was eventually purchased - somewhat begrudgingly - for the Royal Air Force after the BAC TSR.2 supersonic strike aircraft was cancelled in 1965. A small number of Buccaneers were ordered by the Sotuh African Air Force as part of the Simonstown Agreement allowing the Royal Navy to use South African Navy facilities whilst rounding the Cape. As with many ageing British combat aircraft, the Buccaneer saw military action at the twilight of its career, carrying out laser guided bomb attacks on Iraqi bunkers during Operation Granby, the British plan to liberate Kuwait from Iraqi forces, in 1991. This reprinted edition of this book examines the Buccaneer's varied career, with many photographs never before seen in print. Also including close up detail photographs, the book includes scale line drawings.

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Product Information

General Fields

  • : 9780946958405
  • : Ad Hoc Publications,Stowmarket
  • : Ad Hoc Publications,Stowmarket
  • : July 2005
  • : 297mm X 210mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Roger Chesneau
  • : Paperback
  • : 623.7463
  • : 60
  • : 32 colour photos, 130 h/tone photos, 12 colour artworks, 31 line drawings