Google Earth Community: The Blackburn Buccaneer Collection

Blackburn buccaneer

Firstly a little information is in order:

[The Blackburn Buccaneer was a British attack aircraft serving with the Royal Navy and the Royal Air Force. It was widely regarded as one of the finest low-level strike aircraft of its day.wikipedia.org

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The Blackburn buccaneer In Detail

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Though originally criticized and unappreciated by its users, the Buccaneer eventually emerged as one of the best designed and most capable low-level attack aircraft of the Cold War. While most aircraft of the period stressed supersonic, high altitude flight, the Buccaneer was designed to a Royal Navy requirement for a bomber to fly subsonic, under-the-radar missions to penetrate enemy airspace without detection. In meeting these needs, the design team produced an aircraft with an advanced boundary layer control system for improved maximum lift, an area-rule shaped fuselage for reduced drag, and a large internal fuel capacity coupled with fuel efficient engines for superb range. The Buccaneer was also fitted with an internal bomb bay for up to four 1,000 lb bombs, thereby maintaining a clean exterior and allowing the aircraft to cruise at higher speeds and with lower fuel consumption than the Mirage III or F-4. Other advanced features incorporated in the design included splitting the rear fuselage in half to act as airbrakes, a rotating bomb bay door to reduce drag when dropping ordnance, powered controls, and very compact dimensions when wings and tailcone were folded. These features made the Buccaneer exceptionally well-suited to its primary roll as a carrier-based bomber on Britain's large aircraft carriers of the day.
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Bet some of you are thinking "Whats that Pointed Tail about , well as you can see its a rather nifty airbrake to slow the aircraft down.

Variants

Buccaneer
Preproduction build of 20 aircraft.

Buccaneer S.1
First production model, powered by the Gyron Junior turbojet engines. 40 (?) built.

Buccaneer S.2
Conversion of the S.1 with various improvements and powered by the more powerful Rolls-Royce Spey turbofan engines. From 1962 10 were converted by Blackburn Aircraft Ltd. and 74 by Hawker Siddeley Aviation Ltd.

Buccaneer S.2A
Ex-Royal Navy aircraft reworked for RAF.

Buccaneer S.2B
Variant for RAF squadrons. Fully equipped and could carry the Martel anti-radar or anti-shipping missile. 45 built between 1973 and 1977.

Buccaneer S.2C
Royal Navy aircraft upgraded to S.2A standard.

Buccaneer S.2D
Royal Navy aircraft upgraded to S.2B standard, operational with Martels from 1975.

Buccaneer S.50
Variant for South Africa. Wings could be folded but folding was no longer powered. Aircraft could be equipped with two single-stage rockets (see RATO) to assist take-off from hot-and-high airfields like that of AFB Waterkloof in Pretoria, where the type was mostly based.

Details

General characteristics
• Crew: 2
• Length: 63 ft 5 in (19.33 m)
• Wingspan: 44 ft (13.41 m)
• Height: 16 ft 3 in (4.97 m)
• Wing area: 514.7 ft² (47.82 m²)
• Empty weight: 30,000 lb (14,000 kg)
• Loaded weight: 62,000 lb (28,000 kg)
• Power plant: 2× Rolls-Royce Spey Mk 101 turbofans, 11,100 lbf (49 kN) each

Performance
• Maximum speed: 645 mph (560 knots, 1,040 km/h) at 200 ft (60 m)
• Range: 2,000 nautical miles (2,300 mi, 3,700 km)
• Service ceiling: 40,000 ft (12,200 m)
• Wing loading: 120.5 lb/ft² (587.6 kg/m²)
• Thrust/weight: 0.36

Armament
• Up to 12,000 lb (5,400 kg) of ordnance carried in the internal bomb bay and on four under wing hard points

Links

Websites

>> www.blackburn-buccaneer.co.uk
>> www.buccsociety.com
>> en.wikipedia.org
>> Display buccaneer
>> www.vectorsite.net
>> www.warbirdalley.com
>> www.britishaircraft.co.uk

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Blackburn buccaneers found

Number little space please Type little space please Location

1. little space please ....... S.1 little space please At the Gatwick Aviation Museum
2. little space please ....... S.1 little space please At the Newark Air museam
3. little space please ....... S.2D lle space please Cosford
4. little space please ....... S.2 lle space please . RAF Honington
5. little space please ....... S.2 lle space please . Yorkshire Air Museum, Elvington, North Yorkshire
6. little space please ....... S.2D lle space please at Brough
7. little space please ....... S.2B lle space please East Midlands Aeropark, East Midlands Airport, Leicestershire
8. little space please ....... S.2B lle space please at Manston
9. little space please ....... S.2B lle space please Bruntingthorpe, Leicestershire
10. little space peas ........ S.2B lle space please Jet Age Museum, Gloucestershire
11. little space peas ........ N/a lle space pleas..e Marham
12. little space peas ........ S.2C lle space pleas.. Farnborough airfield, Hampshire
13. little space peas ........ S.50 lle space pleas.. Pretoria, South Africa
14. little space peas ........ S.50 lle space pleas. . Pretoria, South Africa
15. little space peas ........ S.2B le space pleas. .at Farnborough
16. little space peas ........ N/A le space pleas. .Yeovilton

Edited by JosieNorden (12/30/07 12:20 PM)