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Here's Ukmil's new (freeware) Buccaneer ...







The VC is a bit crude, but the exterior model is great. Lots of liveries - this one reminds me of an Airfix kit I once had ...

Been waiting for 'Flying Stations' S2 but it's tough to beat freeware.

Looks great!

Didn't know MilViz did freeware projects. I couldn't find it on their website, but I'll take a look around.

I'll see your milviz buccaneer and raise you a ukmil bucco! Still in saying that I've yet do see any screens of it.

Adam, I think you got milviz and ukmil mixed up

Ive edited the title - Milviz dont make a Buccaneer and Im pretty sure its Ukmils because I have just intalled it myself..nice shots BTW

Adam , recall the 1979 documentary TV series 'Sailor' , the music score by Rod Stewart and couple off Bucks ripping in low level across the Ark Royal , across the carriers bows .

NICE.....Now for a Lightning and a good Jag....and maybe the other 2 V bombers (Victor & Valiant)
Great shots Ada

Splitpin wrote:

QUOTE (Splitpin @ Mar 30 2012,10:43 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Now for a Lightning and a good Jag....

Thats not to far away ... the Lightning ..... a good chisel nose Jag , Ashburton Museum was asking for one to match the Harrier , not sure how the deal went .

Naki wrote:

QUOTE (Naki @ Mar 30 2012,9:44 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Ive edited the title - Milviz dont make a Buccaneer and Im pretty sure its Ukmils because I have just intalled it myself..nice shots BTW

THANKS, Paul!!!!! I'm not entirely sure where my brain is these days!!!!

Old joke - a Buccaneer is a hell of a price for corn.

Olderndirt wrote:

QUOTE (Olderndirt @ Mar 30 2012,2:08 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Old joke - a Buccaneer is a hell of a price for corn.

One i have not heard before ... not from the days of sail is it

Ian Warren wrote:

QUOTE (Ian Warren @ Mar 30 2012,11:02 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Thats not to far away ... the Lightning ..... a good chisel nose Jag , Ashburton Museum was asking for one to match the Harrier , not sure how the deal went .

Looking forward to the old EE I hope Ashburton get the jag....even the forward section would be nice , to go with their canberra and hunter .

I still can't decide whether the Buccaneer looks good or not?

If you think the VC on this one isnt too hot you should have seen the first version! This one is much improved.

Does anybody also get the same soggy undercarriage and distinct lean to the right when on the ground and taxiing as I mentioned in another thread on this subject?

Hmm maybe it was that last Laphroaig

I love the Bucc. As an ATC cadet I was lucky enough to spend a week at RAF Laabruch in Germany in 1973. They had, what was then, a highly advanced simulator for training the Bucc crews who incidentally were all rated for nuclear weapons delivery. The sim was huge and entailed a camera actually moving over a model of the ground. Obviously modelling a lo-lo-hi attack profile I suppose. It was all quite hush hush - or at least that was what we were lead to believe then. The dispersed areas were surrounded by trip wire alerst which someone stupidly managed to get himself entangled with on a night exercise. Great fun though!

dart15 wrote:

QUOTE (dart15 @ Mar 30 2012,4:59 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Does anybody also get the same soggy undercarriage and distinct lean to the right when on the ground and taxiing as I mentioned in another thread on this subject?

I love the Bucc. As an ATC cadet I was lucky enough to spend a week at RAF Laabruch in Germany in 1973. They had, what was then, a highly advanced simulator for training the Bucc crews who incidentally were all rated for nuclear weapons delivery. The sim was huge and entailed a camera actually moving over a model of the ground. Obviously modelling a lo-lo-hi attack profile I suppose. It was all quite hush hush - or at least that was what we were lead to believe then. The dispersed areas were surrounded by trip wire alerst which someone stupidly managed to get himself entangled with on a night exercise. Great fun though!

I'll check that u/c next time I'm in FSX.

Hehe ... one of my weeks was RAF Coningsby - then on active alert with nuclear-armed Vulcans. It included frequent random scrambles (including night-time), where all concerned weren't told that it was "just an exercise" until well after take off. I'll never forget that week!

Before coming to NZ, I lived near RAF Kemble and got to see a Buccaneer as it was being restored. An incredible looking thing. It did a few very fast runway taxis while I was there - and even lifted off a foot or two (but we all agreed we never saw that!). I don't think it was planned to make it full flyable, but I could be wrong. That was over 10 years ago.

Adamski wrote:

QUOTE (Adamski @ Mar 30 2012,5:38 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Hehe ... one of my weeks was RAF Coningsby

Hey I did a week at Coningsby too - in 1970! It was my first Camp. By then the station was host to the FGR2 Phantoms. See pic



I'm 4th from left rear row

Those were great days....

Arrrrrrr the Phantom ... now that is one that never will pass .. Nice posting

dart15 wrote:

QUOTE (dart15 @ Mar 30 2012,6:09 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I'm 4th from left rear row
Those were great days....

Now, I wonder what on earth happened to my pics? I seem to remember group shots like that ... but in front of a *Vulcan* YAY!!! I think mine would have been around the 1965-1967 mark. Not that long after the Cuban missile crisis, so things were still very "dodgy" in those days. The war was still very "cold"

Those were the days indeed!

dart15 wrote:

QUOTE (dart15 @ Mar 30 2012,4:59 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Does anybody also get the same soggy undercarriage and distinct lean to the right when on the ground and taxiing as I mentioned in another thread on this subject?

The whole undercarriage is a mess, IMHO. Way too soft all round.

1) The nosewheel compresses almost 100% with the slightest braking.
2) I can't get independent L/R braking to work.
3) Doesn't matter whether I turn left or right, the aircraft almost keels over as the strut telescopes.
4) I tried doing the same wit the wings folded. We get sparks where the model thinks its wingtip still are.

This is all very well - but it *is* a freeware/team effort, so I'm not complaining. I'd have thought the undercarriage thing would be an easy one to fix though.