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1962
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198-199 FLIGHT International, 9 August 1962 LIKE seabirds driven inland, the Royal Navy's Black burn Buccaneers haveduringrecentmonthsspentalmost more time over land than over sea, during development flying from RNAS Lossiemouth. Much of this time has been at low level, along routes which cut through the wild glens and brush the long loch waters of the Western Highlands: here the aircraft are depicted during such sorties. The photographs have a double Scottish accent, MONARCHS OF THE GLENS for besides their locale they were taken from a Hunter T.8 manned by a Stewart-Macdonald team (Lt Arthur Stewart, of the Instrument Rating Flight at RNAS Yeovilton, was the pilot and Ian Macdonald the photographer). The view showing the rotating bomb- door open and four 1,0001b bombs is of particular interest, as such armament has not been shown before in a Buccaneer photograph. This aircraft was being flown by Cdr A. J. Leahy, MBE, DSC, CO of 700Z Flight, from which the first Buccaneer squadron—801—was recently formed. A second squadron—809—is soon to be formed at Lossiemouth. The aircraft in the other two photographs—dramatically "emerging" from a mountainside and over Loch Shin in Sutherland—was piloted by Lt B. R. Toomey, a member of 700Z Flight.
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