Blackburn Buccaneer

Blackburn Buccaneer

  • Author: Braas, Nico
  • Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
  • Serie: Lanasta - Warplane
  • ISBN: 9789086161683
  • eISBN Pdf: 9789464562736
  • Place of publication:  Amsterdam , Netherlands
  • Year of digital publication: 2023
  • Month: August
  • Pages: 49
  • Language: English

The Blackburn Buccaneer was the first jet aircraft specially designed for flying very low under the radar at high subsonic speeds. It was developed in the fifties and entered service at the Royal Navy in 1962. Later it also flew as an attack bomber at the R.A.F. and it even played a role in the Gulf War in 1991 before being retired in 1994 after an operational career that spanned three decades...

  • Blackburn Aircraft Ltd. - A short overview
  • Introduction
  • In service at the royal navy
    • The Buccaneer S.1
    • The Buccaneer S.2
    • Export Buccaneers
  • Buccaneer Photo-Recce crate
  • South African nuclear bombers
  • In service at the R.A.F. ... at last
  • Martel Missile (AJ.168) (AS.37)
  • WE177 nuclear bomb
  • The Buccaneer goes to war
  • Museum piece
  • Final phase out and retirement
  • Sub-versions S.2:
  • accidents and Incidents
  • Survivors
  • Technical Description
  • References
  • Credits

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