Why the Buccaneer stood out at Red Flag

What made the Blackburn Buccaneer perform so well in exercises such as Red Flag?

It could fly exceptionally low while remaining highly manoeuvrable, and its crews used that profile aggressively.

Very low-level flight and manoeuvrability as the Buccaneer's defining strengths. Those qualities made its exercise appearances memorable to American observers. The recollection includes the joke that Royal Navy pilots seemed to have a fear of heights, a comment on how persistently they exploited low altitude. The anecdote captures the aircraft's operating style without turning an exercise reputation into a claim of invulnerability.