Adventures of a Cold War Fast-Jet Navigator: The Buccaneer Years

An RAF navigator's lively, candid memoir of flying low and living fast during the Cold War years.

David Herriot served almost forty years in the Royal Air Force as a navigator, first on the Buccaneer S2 and subsequently on the Tornado GR1. This volume recounts his early career operating the Buccaneer on three operational flying tours, plus a tour as an instructor on the Operational Conversion Unit. With almost 2500 hours on an aircraft that was operated at high speed, in all weathers and ...