Blackburn (BAE) Buccaneer

[zenrat]

Surely not BS??? 

Gnome (surely the most unlikely name for an aircraft engine since the Allison Tinkerbell).
BS I can generate in more than adequate amounts on my own.   

[comrade harps]

I keep reading that the bomb bay can still rotate  open with the bulged bomb bay door fuel tank attached. Is that correct?

[The Wooksta!]

Yes.

[PR19_Kit]

The bomb bay door fuel tank isn't just attached, it IS the bomb bay door.

They're two different designs of door, one with fuel and one without.

[comrade harps]

Thanks for the clarification 

So, I could build a Brick with the bulged bomb bay door and put the (internal) bombload in the text. Cool.

[PR19_Kit]

You certainly could, we'd all just have to imagine the bombs were there. 

Of course if you were REALLY masochistic you could model the door half open and then you could REALLY have the bombs on view. 

[Gondor]

You could slso have the bomb bay doors open and show the bombs and say that the door is bulged

Gondor

[Rheged]

I have been told that the bomb bay of a single Buccaneer was ideal for bringing several large flagons of KEO FIVE  KINGS  Cypriot brandy back from deployments to Akrotiri.

[Nick]

And you could fly the flag on the bomb bay door, as they did when showing force over Lebanon in 1983.  Apparently seeing the British flag is more intimidating when it's on the underside of a strike bomber just 50ft above your head at high speed! 

[kitbasher]

That would be taking a perfectly good British aeroplane and spoiling it by fitting totally inappropriate American engines......

Or, taking a perfectly good US aeroplane and fitting totally inappropriate BRITISH engines?? 

Allan

While that me be appropriate to some Phantoms it certainly doesn't apply to the Bucc.....

IIRC Speys were chosen for UK Phantoms in part because of thrust/acceleration advantages over the original J79s.  Essential when getting them off the smaller RN carriers.  Yes they were slower at altitude but still potent.

[The Wooksta!]

Has anyone ever thought of doing the Buccaneer S1 in RAF colours?  Interim before getting TSR2?

[PR19_Kit]

Has anyone ever thought of doing the Buccaneer S1 in RAF colours?  Interim before getting TSR2

That would be VERY Whiffy, the RAF REALLY didn't want to know about the Bucc in the early days. 

[McColm]

You could slso have the bomb bay doors open and show the bombs and say that the door is bulged

Gondor

You could use the Freightdog open bomb bay conversions in 1/72 scale.

[ysi_maniac]

Mini Buccaneer, based on Hawker Sea Hawk

[NARSES2]

That's interesting