Buccaneer
Buccaneer S.2B, RAF Mildenhall, 1988
Vloga	Palubni bombnik
Proizvajalec/-ci	Blackburn Aircraft Limited Hawker Siddeley
Krstni polet	3. april 1958
Predstavljen	17. julij 1962
Upokojen	1993
Glavni uporabniki	Kraljeva mornarica RAF Južnoafriške letalske sile

Blackburn Buccaneer je britanski dvomotorni reaktivni palubni bombnik. Kraljeve letalske sile (RAF) in Kraljeva mornarica so v 1950ih hotele palubno bombniško letalo, ki bi lahko letelo na nizki višini (pod radarjem) in bilo sposobno jedrskih napadov. Zasnovalo ga je podjetje Blackburn Aircraft, pozneje to podjetje postalo del skupine Hawker Siddeley, zato se uporablja tudi oznaka Hawker Siddeley Buccaneer.

Prva serijska letala so imela več nesreč zaradi premajhne moči motorjev, zato so predstavili verzijo Buccaneer S.2 z močnejšimi motorji Rolls-Royce Spey. Sprva je bil Buccanner zavrnjen, ker je RAF hotela nadzvočnega BAC TSR-2 ali pa F-111K. Pozneje so preklicali oba TSR-2 in F-111K in namesto njih naročili Buccaneerje.

Buccaneerji so se uporabljali v Zalivski vojni in Južnoafriški obmejni vojni.

Pri Kraljevi mornarici je Buccaneerja nadomestil V/STOL British Aerospace Sea Harrier, pri RAF pa Panavia Tornado.

Tehnične specifikacije (Buccaneer S.2)

Zunanji video

Documentary focused on the Buccaneer

RAF Buccaneer performing display flight in 1993

Footage of Buccaneer activities during US Red Flag exercise

Podatki iz The Observer's Book of Aircraft,^[1] Aeroguide 30: Blackburn Buccaneer S Mks 1 and 2^[2]

Splošne karakteristike

• Posadka: 2
• Dolžina: 63 ft 5 in (19,33 m)
• Razpon kril: 44 ft (13,41 m)
• Višina: 16 ft 3 in (4,97 m)
• Površina kril: 514,7 ft² (47,82 m²)
• Teža praznega letala: 30000 lb (14000 kg)
• Naložena teža: 62000 lb (28000 kg)
• Pogon letala: 2 × Rolls-Royce Spey Mk 101 turbofan, 11100 funtov (49 kN) vsak

Zmogljivost

• Maks. hitrost: 667 mph (580 vozlov, 1,074 km/h) na 200 ft (60 m)
• Doseg: 2300 mi (2000 nmi, 3700 km)
• Višina leta: 40000 ft (12200 m)
• Obremenitev kril: 120,5 lb/ft² (587,6 kg/m²)
• Razmerje potisk/teža: 0,36

Oborožitev

• Strelno orožje: brez
• Nosilci za orožje: 4× podkrilni nosilci in 1× notranji prostor z rotirajočim nosilcem s kapaciteto 12.000 lb (5.443 kg) in zalogo orožja s kombinacijo:
  • Rakete: 4× Matra nevodljive rakete, vsak nosilec s 18× SNEB 68 mm raketami
  • Izstrelki: 2× AIM-9 Sidewinder ali 2× AS-37 Martel ali 4× Sea Eagle
  • Bombe: Konvencionalne prostopadajoče in vodene bombe, taktične jedrske bombe WE.177 ali Read Beard
  • Drugo: AN/ALQ-101 ECM, AN/AVQ-23 Pave Spike laserski namerilnik, odvrgljivi rezervoarji za gorivo, sistem za "buddy" prečrpavanje goriva v zraku

Glej tudi

• Suhoj Su-17
• Dassault Étendard IV
• Douglas A-4 Skyhawk
• Grumman A-6 Intruder
• LTV A-7 Corsair II
• Palubno letalo

Sklici in reference

Bibliografija

• Bishop, Chris and Chris Chant. Aircraft Carriers: The World's Greatest Naval Vessels and Their Aircraft. Minneapolis, Minnesota: Zenith Imprint, 2004. ISBN 0-76032-005-5.
• Boot, Roy. "Father of the Buccaneer". Aeroplane Monthly, Vol. 23, No. 3, March 1995,. pp. 24–29. ISSN 0143-7240.
• Boot, Roy. From Spitfire to Eurofighter: 45 Years of Combat Aircraft Design. Shrewsbury, Shropshire, UK: Airlife Publishing Ltd., 1990. ISBN 1-85310-093-5.
• Burns, J.G. and M. Edwards. "Blow, blow thou BLC wind". Flight International Vol. 99, No. 3227, 14 January 1971, pp. 56–59.
• Buttler, Tony. "Strike Rivals: The ones that 'lost' when the TSR.2 'won'." Air Enthusiast, No. 59, September/October 1995, pp. 12–23.
• Calvert, Denis J. and David Donald. "Blackburn Buccaneer". Wings of Fame, Volume 14. London: Aerospace Publishing, 1999. pp. 34–103. ISBN 1-86184-029-2. ISSN 1361-2034.
• Caygill, Peter. "Flying the Buccaneer: Britain's Cold War Warrior." Casemate Publishers, 2008. ISBN 1-84415-669-9.
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• Laming, Tim. Fight's On!: Airborne with the Aggressors. Zenith Imprint, 1996. ISBN 0-76030-260-X.
• Polmar, Norman. Aircraft Carriers: A History of Carrier Aviation and Its Influence on World Events, Volume I: 1909-1945. Herndon, Virginia: Potomac Books, 2006. ISBN 1-57488-663-0.
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• Van Pelt, Michel. Rocketing Into the Future: The History and Technology of Rocket Planes. New York: Springer, 2012. ISBN 1-46143-200-6.
• White, Rowland. Phoenix Squadron: HMS Ark Royal, Britain's Last Topguns and the Untold Story of Their Most Dramatic Mission. London: Bantam Press, 2009. ISBN 978-0-59305-451-2.
• Winchester, Jim, ur. (2006). Military Aircraft of the Cold War. London: Grange Books plc. ISBN 9781840139297.
• Wynn, Humphrey. "RAF Buccaneers". Flight International, 11 February 1971, Vol. 99 No. 3231, pp. 202–207.
• Wynn, Humphrey. The RAF Strategic Nuclear Deterrent Forces: Their Origins, Roles and Deployment, 1946-1969: a Documentary History. London: HMO, 1997. ISBN 0-11772-833-0.

Zunanje povezave

Wikimedijina zbirka ponuja več predstavnostnega gradiva o temi: Blackburn Buccaneer

• Blackburn Buccaneer from Thunder and Lightnings
• The Blackburn Buccaneer at Air Vectors
• Blackburn Buccaneer: The awesome "Banana" Jet Arhivirano 2007-11-30 na Wayback Machine.
• The FAA Buccaneer Association
• J. G. Burns and M. Edwards (1971), »Blow, blow thou BLC wind«, Flight International - explanation of BLC on Buccaneer and comparison with Phantom
• "NA.39 - Blackburn's Naval Bomber: A First Analytical Study" a 1958 Flight article by Bill Gunston
• "Flying the Buccaneer" a 1962 Flight article

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