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1 Designer
2 Nickname
3 The genesis
4 Wingweb.co.uk
5 Radar

[edit] Designer

It may be vandalism but 82.47.60.206 has put in "It was designed by ROY BOOT" whilst the info box has "Designed by B. P. Laight". One of these may be true. I came here to find out now I'm no better off. There does not appear to be an answer on "Thunder and lighthings" to this

Soarhead77 15:21, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

B. P. Laight is correct. That is taken from the reference work "Fly Navy". Emoscopes ^Talk 19:08, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Nickname

The phrase "Blackburn Bulldozer" gets exactly one hit in Google - this page. Can anyone come up with support for that nickname? --cfmdobbie

[edit] The genesis

I seem to recall that the GOR that led to the Bucc was a response to the Soviets introducing a new "classic" gun cruiser. The RN was faced with the option of developing their own class to counter it, or going "non-linear", and chose the latter approach. The Bucc would be able to attack this fleet with an excellent chance of success while being much less expensive to deploy than a surface ship with the same survivability.

Soooo... does anyone remember which class of ship it was? It seems like a very important historical point that should be mentioned!

Maury

The Sverdlov Adam1983 14:48, 29 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Wingweb.co.uk

I run a site titled Air Vectors that covers military aircraft and gets cited here and there on Wikipedia. I don't normally touch wikipedia articles other than to correct typos and the like, but I just found out about a site named "Wingweb.co.uk" which is also cited here and there on Wikipedia ... but whose aviation articles are largely or entirely downloads of Air Vectors articles -- advertized as "original content & images" though they also lifted many of my photos and artwork.

I have no fuss to make. I just want to make sure the Wikipedia community knowns that Wingweb.co.uk is a ripoff operation. Cheers / MrG 4.225.208.126 02:43, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Radar

The Buccaneer radar seems to have been codenamed "Blue Parrot"/Airpass II. Some mention of this should be made. Was this equipment used in any other aircraft?Drutt (talk) 05:57, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

Blue Parrot was the Rainbow Code for the radar and this set was unique to the Buccaneer; although I believe it was fitted in a solitary Canberra for trials purposes. Emoscopes ^Talk 07:01, 10 June 2008 (UTC)