Airfix - Blackburn Buccaneer S Mk.2 RN 1:72 (A06021)
The mighty Blackburn Buccaneer was one of the most capable
low-level strike aircraft of the Cold War period, originally entering Royal Navy
service in 1962 to counter the significant threat of a massive Soviet Naval
expansion programme. Rather than face the crippling cost of building new ships of
their own to meet this threat, British thinking at the time was to use their new
strike jet to destroy the Soviet ships with a combination of conventional and
nuclear weapons. Capable of extremely high speeds at low level, the Buccaneer proved
to be the ideal aircraft to keep the Warsaw Pact countries on their toes, even
though the performance of the first Buccaneers to enter service was affected by a
lack of power from their two de Havilland Gyron Junior engines.
Scheme A: Blackburn
Buccaneer S.2C - No. 809 Naval Air Squadron, HMS Ark Royal, January 1972
Scheme B: Blackburn
Buccaneer S.2C - No. 800 Naval Air Squadron, HMS Eagle, June 1971
| Model Scale; 1:72 |
Dimensions (mm) L268 x W186 |
| Number of Parts: 141 |
Requires Painting: Yes |
| Skill Level: 3 |
Flying Hours: 3 |
Paints Required but not included:
(A and B) 11, 33, 53,56,85, 93, 123, 127, 155,
163, 165, 166, 196,
(Pilots) 61, 87, 15
