1:48 Blackburn Buccaneer S2B GBP10.20 Gulf War Part Two

Seven Buccaneers in Operation Granby

When it turned out in 1991 that the Tornados over Iraq needed someone to mark the target with a laser, a type that should have been long retired flew into the Gulf. The Blackburn Buccaneer was designed as a carrier strike aircraft for low-level flight over the sea, and in the desert it proved an exceptionally steady carrier for a designator pod. The crews named their machines after Scotch whiskies and painted matching labels on them, so within a few weeks the unit became the most colorful formation of the whole campaign.

The sheet covers seven machines:

• XW547 with the code R, with the double naming Guinness Girl and The Macallan.
• XV332 with no code letter, named Dirty Harriet.
• XX894 with the code O as Aberlour and XX892 with the code I as Glen Lossie.
• XX889 with the code T under the name Longmorn.
• XW533 with the code A, with the pair of names Miss Jolly Roger and Glenfarclas.
• XX899 with the code P, with the pair Laser Lips Laura and Linkwood.

The second part of a pair

This is a continuation of the same subject, so the two parts complement one another and do not overlap. On the doubly named machines the division is regular: the crew nickname tends to be on one side and the distillery label on the other, and it is worth looking at a photograph of the particular machine before you apply them.