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What was the last ditch handle is now the standard handle.

What a waste of bridles. Surely they must of come up with a more suitable piece of kit.

The only aircraft that can fly lower than a Buccaneer is? ......Another Buccaneer !!!😅👍

What's that splash just ahead of the carrier each time an aircraft is launched?

Just shows how stable the aircraft was, at that height there must be some ground effect but that was a rock solid pass.

It's really good to see this video available on You-tube, over 50 years now since the initial Jaguar spinning trials at Warton - I was the flight test engineer who "managed" this particular trial, with the brilliant Tim Ferguson doing the incredibly brave stuff. I believe that Jerry Lee took over for phase 2, that's with the canopy detonation wiring fitted. It was a very exciting time to put it mildly, we made it into the local papers when the anti-spin parachute failed - it fell to earth but was never recovered - and If I recall correctly on one of the flights Tim diverted into Leeming with a fuel problem. Never a dull moment with this aircraft, prototype E02, which was primarily engaged in engine trials. But this isn't the full video, which includes an introduction and other commentary by Sandy Burns (truly one of the "Warton grates" and who I had the great privilege of sitting only two desks behind in Flight Test 50 years ago), and I hope my good friends at FAST can one day upload the whole video. And the last thing I did before leaving Warton in November 1974 was to fly in Jaguar B1/'XX136 behind Jerry Lee on its delivery flight to Boscombe, which sadly was its last landing...

I saw the American version of this show with Jerry Lee Lewis from BAT-21

Yes, but apart from that miniscule barrier problem, it looked easier to land than a ....... Seafire.

I remember it well....! Pressure breathing with G in conjunction with flight trials in a Hunter T7. Had to give blood after each trip - arm was like a junkies at the end! (mid 80s)

The highest I fly in a striker aircraft in warthunder

Thank you, quite informative.

Chuck was from my hometown. The disrespectful comments are sickening.

MY grandpa, dad, and uncleas , directly contributed to this program. There were ejection dummies. I did not live up to their standards. I ended being an ejection idiot.

Very good. Great video

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Is Eric Brown doing the narration? It sounds like him.

See this would have been a neat premium for france rank 7 instead of the F1C, i like my naval aircraft man

Ahh Buccaneer, a real aircraft.

Very nice! 👍🙂

Hi. I must admit probably my most favourite jet fighter. Sleek yet tough. Good looking too.

Still got the looks. Nice.

I didn't know the UK did some of the trials work for Jaguar (N). I thought it was a wholly French venture.

Alton towers prototype 😅 seriously a very interesting video

Well, I never knew they'd got a carrier version going!

stunning.

The French versions had uprated engines from the start, compared to the RAF kites.

In truth, if we had proper Catobar carriers we would be buying French Dassault Rafale jets today!

Underpowered?

So easy to take off and winter 🙂💪👍

The greatest piston engined plane in history.

Always good to see a Derry reversal...

wonderful film , just imagine it though great aircraft anyway shame these beauties are lovely and missed

Very cool 👍👍

An Anglo French aeroplane. But competed against Dassault export models so never that popular with the French even though it was an excellent aeroplane.

Lovely bird, indeed, in all it's versions! May be could be actual to this time.

It just looked so very smart in those colours.

Sadly never ordered into production as the FN preferred the all French, Super Etendard.

Can't say she didn't warn you...

Nowadays they do this on airshows for fun.

what aircraft was the one in the first clip?

An excellent upload thank you. It is extraordinary to think that HMS Victorious was prematurely retired nearly sixty years ago now.

Hope the crew were on Oxygen!

looks fun.

Why the a/c pack deselection?

A good book to read is Front Line and experimental flying with the fleet air arm by Geoff Higgs, he was probably flying in a lot of the trials on these videos.

I remember watching this in training in the late 70s, later on I had 2 Jollies in Jags at Lossiemouth great fun

They wave flags on top of the cockpit as similar acknowledgement to the sea ships. 😂

Jet fuel coming out the engine inlets AND exhausts!! Yikes.

Not incidence. Angle of attack.

Very interesting. During my undergraduate apprenticeship at Warton , in about 1970, I spent 3 months in the Flight Test department. The Lightning spinning trials were over, and I helped prepare graphs from the telemetry tapes. A number of Lightnings had been lost during medium level high g tail chase manoeuvres. Recovery was achieved by “letting go” of the control column…..that’s how it was put to me, but it was probably by centralising the column, and not by trying to recover by pilot input. The A/C would roll and when unloaded, control was regained. If mishandled, then the ensuing spin , had such a high rate of descent that from medium level….15,000 ft…that recovery was impossible in the available height. The test aircraft was fitted with a tail chute .