An old video clip taken from the ‘bomb lift’ experience at the Fleet Air Arm Museum, RNAS Yeovilton.

One of the more potent childhood memories of the museum was seeing this, since it was quite shocking but exciting to watch. I’m convinced this is one of the inspirations behind my interest in Search and Rescue.

I believe this was an S.1 buccaneer that was painted to look like one of the current S.2’s before being deliberately pushed off the stern of HMS Ark Royal and filmed for the BBC series ‘Sailor’. Perhaps also used as part of a training film.