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

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Former RAF Buccaneer pilot, Jon Parker shares some great stories from flying the jet!

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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!

paunixon

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.

brucecrossan

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

rogergreenwood

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 !

welshpete

EXCELLENT historical document.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.

mikehindson-evans

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👍

declanbrady

Way funniest aircrew interview I have seen so far 😂

xyzaero

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

rgp

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

toucheturtle

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

Aeronaut

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.

ozzy

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

charlesphillips

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.

gusgone

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.

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