Buccaneer Pilot Stories! | Jon Parker (In-Person Part 1)

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@Aircrewinterview 2 ай бұрын

The interview is sponsored by our friends at newmarkwatchcompany.com/ who produce the 6BB pilot watch that was originally given to RAF aircrew in 1980, now you can own a piece of history with a modern day revival!

@paunixon 2 ай бұрын

My brother and I, aged about 14 and 15, were walking to the beach in Eastbourne - anything to escape the weekly Sunday tediom of the grandparents, when I thought I'd had some sort of optical illusion, as between two houses, looking out to the beach, a "thing" and another "thing" had streaked past at second story height My brother looked at me to confirm that he too had "moment" when we were both almost incontinent from the deafening roar that followed. Being aviation nuts, we ran the last 10 feet or so to see two Buccaneers 30ft above the beach screaming east. What a fabulous moment!

@Aeronaut1975 2 ай бұрын

25:12 "Flies like a bent manhole cover" 🤣🤣

@gusgone4527 2 ай бұрын

On a good day.

@rogergreenwood1536 2 ай бұрын

50 feet to keep away from the clouds and "visually stimulating", some great quotes. Thanks Jon.

@gusgone4527 2 ай бұрын

My favourite quote from an RAF pilot, came from one of the Op Black Buck Vulcan crew. He described night time in flight refuelling with the Vulcan probe, as akin to: Inserting a piece of hot limp spaghetti, up an angry cats arse, during a hurricane while blindfolded.

@declanbrady5172 2 ай бұрын

I remember being in the car on a mountain pass along with about 30 other cars somewhere in Mid Wales stuck at temporary traffic lights, when two buccs screamed past us. The buccs were down and dirty and we were eye level with the pilots, who were waving at us. When the first two buccs screamed past, everyone abandoned their cars causing chaos, but no one cared. In total we saw about 4 buccs, a couple of harriers and a jag. Good times👍

@Farweasel 2 ай бұрын

Wife & daughter up the Cumbrian fells 3 maybe 4 weeks ago ... Looking down, then down & a bit further down ..... And there scaring sheep down by the Beck are 2 pairs of F-35s Pulling quite high G turns too by the over-wing vapour Good to know some things have great continuity

@rgp101 2 ай бұрын

I remember JP from 121 Sqn ATC. He was a great lad. Glad he had a great career in the RAF.

@mikehindson-evans159 2 ай бұрын

EXCELLENT historical document. Thanks to all who were involved in bringing this to the attention of a wider audience. Got "bounced" once, in 1972, by a pair of Buccs in the English Channel on an RNVR minesweeper en-route to the Channel Islands. Impressive sight.

@marlenehoy2487 2 ай бұрын

The only aircraft to fly BELOW sea level was a common gag describing the 'bucc' .

@Aircrewinterview 2 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it.

@lourencoalmada1305 Ай бұрын

@marlenehoy2487 In some places in the Netherlands, they possibly could have! 😉

@xyzaero 2 ай бұрын

Way funniest aircrew interview I have seen so far 😂

@Aircrewinterview 2 ай бұрын

Cheers!

@xyzaero 2 ай бұрын

@@Aircrewinterview Keep on bringing the good stuff Mike 👍🏻

@toucheturtle3840 2 ай бұрын

My uncle served on HMS Victorious. They had Buccaneers on board. An amazing piece of British engineering.

@brucecrossan2284 Ай бұрын

I was standing on The Mall for the Battle of Britain Flypast in September 1990 that Jon was a part of. The number of aircraft was 176 (I'm an accountant - numbers stick in my head!). I set my watch that morning to the second, using the Radio 4 time pips and counted down the number of minutes and seconds to the first aircraft flying above us. I had calculated the place we were standing was about 4 seconds flying time to Buckingham Palace. I called out '10 seconds'. . . after 5 more seconds my friends looked at me as if to say 'where are they?'. Then, exactly 5 seconds later, 7 Merlin engined Spitfires and Hurricanes roared overhead, leading the formation. This was written about in The Times the next day - the formation was lead by the lead Spitfire pilot who achieved that level of precision using nothing more than a stop-watch, a map and a compass. I will never forget that day.

@ozzy8286 2 ай бұрын

I remember that Dave Southwood, the guy that won the Empire Test Pilot School award way back in the late 80s was a Buccaneer pilot. The best of the best.

@gusgone4527 2 ай бұрын

I was an army SNCO and what I always enjoyed most was visiting other unit messes and listening to all the stories. Most of which had at least a little truth to them. I was lucky enough for various reasons to spend some time with both the RAF Reg and Royal Marines, in their messes. Needless to say, the banter, pranks and war stories were epic. Huge respect for both the RAF Reg and RM lads but don't tell them I said so.

@neilrobinson5115 2 ай бұрын

Miss the buccaneers,I remember my last view of a buccaneer display flown by Flt lt Glen Mason,Great memories.

@charlesphillips8635 2 ай бұрын

Always a pleasure to be regaled by Jon’s tales, thanks.

@keithharris4620 2 ай бұрын

Beautiful aircraft…… and bloody huge!

@marlenehoy2487 2 ай бұрын

Biggest "banana" ever that flew.

@CaoimhinOMaol 2 ай бұрын

Only way I made it through USAF Air Training Command, Instructor Pilot Training , Randolph AFB was due to a former-Buccaneer pilot, F/L Alan Taylor. Believe he made Sqdn Ldr before going home.

@380Scania 2 ай бұрын

“Dolphin trainer” forgot about that one 😂😂😂

@welshpete12 2 ай бұрын

Every mistake that could be made they relied on me to make it . LOl . One hell of a guy ! I would love to meet him !

@tivvy-xf4kz 2 ай бұрын

Served on Fleet air arm Buccaneers 736 and 800 sqdns 65/67and HMS Eagle 67/68 as an aircraft mechanic.

@craigevans6156 2 ай бұрын

We need more from this guy! ❤

@EvoraGT430 2 ай бұрын

JP always was a great raconteur.

@johnnygeebee 2 ай бұрын

Always entertaining

@ianseddon9347 2 ай бұрын

Just found your channel, this was fabulous- thanks!

@theflyingfool 2 ай бұрын

Haha! A brilliant skit! Can't wait for part 2 :D

@davidsmith8997 2 ай бұрын

Yup, another great batch of stories! Told with nice humility too.

@jjsmallpiece9234 2 ай бұрын

Under water swimming pool tiler is another well known RAF party job

@Jabber-ig3iw 2 ай бұрын

We had underwater wood welder in the army,

@NoFaithNoPain 2 ай бұрын

I was on HMS Fearless in 1989 off North coast of Cornwall. I think he bombed me. They missed the towed decoy :-))

@donnymacleod9729 2 ай бұрын

Great days 80s 90s jon one of the best bucaneer great kite

@MarkJones-sk6vk 2 ай бұрын

Thanks for the vid.

@charlescoulson 2 ай бұрын

I was a commercial traveller in aluminium tubing!!!

@richskinns 2 ай бұрын

Excellent, cheers

@mikelynn4754 2 ай бұрын

Gotta luv Buccs 😁

@d-rob5513 2 ай бұрын

I joined the airforce in 95 and served 12 years as an Armourer so missed the Buccaneers and Phantoms but would have loved to have worked on either jets 😔 served on GR Tonkas for 2 tours belting jets but there’s something about the bucc and tomb.

@bobthebomb1596 Ай бұрын

Nothing looks quite so "at home" at low level as a Bucc, especially when they are approaching you near head on.

@Lee78072 2 ай бұрын

He needs a Shirt with Jet Provost Canopy Kill marks....😁

@Farweasel 2 ай бұрын

Spiney Norman? He was a Hedgehog ..... *Possibly* used to nail people's heads to coffee tables ..... Or had a beef with Dinsdale Another very interesting raconteur for all that

@davidhunt3808 2 ай бұрын

When you look at British military aircraft they certainly have been cutting edge and often very different to American aircraft !! The British aircraft industry is capable of still producing cutting edged an advance aircraft .

@marlenehoy2487 2 ай бұрын

The Tempest 6 gen series programme will be interesting to follow for the next few years.

@ianseddon9347 2 ай бұрын

Imagine where we could have been if politicians hadn’t cancelled TSR2 !

@johnnewell5468 2 ай бұрын

I think my brother Bob Newell retired from Lossiemouth before your arrival.

@jb6027 12 күн бұрын

I'd be all over the Newmark 6BB chronograph if they'd put a movement with a running seconds hand. I won't consider a watch that doesn't have one.

@DL-oy2qn 2 ай бұрын

Biscuit designer lol

@MattSmith-pf5di 2 ай бұрын

What ever it takes. 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 🇨🇦 🇦🇺

@gusgone4527 2 ай бұрын

When the anglosphere stand united as one. We are unstoppable! You missed out the Kiwis - the fifth eye. It's not their fault the current NZ PM Hipkins is more marxist than Biden and Trudeau combined. Speaking of Trudeau. Did you know that Fidel Castro was his real father. His mum was a bit of a party animal and close friend of Fidel! While Two Tier Keir is actually an undercover Imam.