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3/17/2012 5:07:49 PM
Sunday 18-3-12 Channel 4 at 8 pm
Falklands' Most Daring Raid .... Documentary detailing the RAF Vulcan bombing raids
On Port Stanley's runway.
Longest bombing raid ever undertaken
Falklands' Most Daring Raid .... Documentary detailing the RAF Vulcan bombing raids
On Port Stanley's runway.
Longest bombing raid ever undertaken
3/17/2012 5:10:28 PM
I remember working on the ECM ARI23232 system & pylons trials and the long weekends working...
Mind you we did have the Tornado's but due to and italian cokc up, they were not sent
Mind you we did have the Tornado's but due to and italian cokc up, they were not sent
3/17/2012 5:11:13 PM
Originally Posted By JABBER-JAW:
Sunday 18-3-12 Channel 4 at 8 pm
Falklands' Most Daring Raid .... Documentary detailing the RAF Vulcan bombing raids
On Port Stanley's runway.
Longest bombing raid ever undertaken
Sunday 18-3-12 Channel 4 at 8 pm
Falklands' Most Daring Raid .... Documentary detailing the RAF Vulcan bombing raids
On Port Stanley's runway.
Longest bombing raid ever undertaken
Xm607
3/17/2012 5:14:18 PM
Mind you they didn't all go off and only one grazed the runway...
http://www.rafbdhistory.co.uk/new_page_8.htm
http://www.rafbdhistory.co.uk/new_page_8.htm
3/17/2012 5:14:18 PM
Originally Posted By Hutch526:
Xm607
Originally Posted By JABBER-JAW:
Sunday 18-3-12 Channel 4 at 8 pm
Falklands' Most Daring Raid .... Documentary detailing the RAF Vulcan bombing raids
On Port Stanley's runway.
Longest bombing raid ever undertaken
Sunday 18-3-12 Channel 4 at 8 pm
Falklands' Most Daring Raid .... Documentary detailing the RAF Vulcan bombing raids
On Port Stanley's runway.
Longest bombing raid ever undertaken
Xm607
Was that the one Martin Withers flew ... Was awarded DFC, I think ??
3/17/2012 5:16:54 PM
Originally Posted By Jayteepee_1999:
Mind you they didn't all go off and only one grazed the runway...
http://www.rafbdhistory.co.uk/new_page_8.htm
Mind you they didn't all go off and only one grazed the runway...
http://www.rafbdhistory.co.uk/new_page_8.htm
I think they bombed across the runway rather than along its length
However, it was a psychological victory rather than the actual damage caused ...
3/17/2012 5:32:50 PM
Originally Posted By JABBER-JAW:
Was that the one Martin Withers flew ... Was awarded DFC, I think ??
Originally Posted By Hutch526:
Xm607
Originally Posted By JABBER-JAW:
Sunday 18-3-12 Channel 4 at 8 pm
Falklands' Most Daring Raid .... Documentary detailing the RAF Vulcan bombing raids
On Port Stanley's runway.
Longest bombing raid ever undertaken
Sunday 18-3-12 Channel 4 at 8 pm
Falklands' Most Daring Raid .... Documentary detailing the RAF Vulcan bombing raids
On Port Stanley's runway.
Longest bombing raid ever undertaken
Xm607
Was that the one Martin Withers flew ... Was awarded DFC, I think ??
Yes op black buck
3/17/2012 8:13:52 PM
It WAS the longest bombing mission until the B2 bombing raids during Gulf War 2
3/17/2012 8:37:06 PM
Originally Posted By Jayteepee_1999:
Mind you they didn't all go off and only one grazed the runway...
http://www.rafbdhistory.co.uk/new_page_8.htm
Mind you they didn't all go off and only one grazed the runway...
http://www.rafbdhistory.co.uk/new_page_8.htm
[cough] the UXB was dropped from a Harrier, not a Vulcan [/cough]
3/17/2012 8:42:09 PM
Originally Posted By JABBER-JAW:
I think they bombed across the runway rather than along its length
However, it was a psychological victory rather than the actual damage caused ...
Originally Posted By Jayteepee_1999:
Mind you they didn't all go off and only one grazed the runway...
http://www.rafbdhistory.co.uk/new_page_8.htm
Mind you they didn't all go off and only one grazed the runway...
http://www.rafbdhistory.co.uk/new_page_8.htm
I think they bombed across the runway rather than along its length
However, it was a psychological victory rather than the actual damage caused ...
IIRC it was something like a 30 degree crossing angle giving the greatest statistical probability of a runway hit. If you try to bomb along the length and you miss with one, you miss with all.
Let's also not forget it took something like 17 Victor tankers to get that one Vulcan over the runway & back to Ascention 
Thick end of one million gallons of fuel for that one operation.
3/18/2012 3:00:54 PM
Yep you are right,
3/18/2012 6:38:46 PM
I was 10 when this took place, didn't really appreciate it at the time. That was one hell of a mission to carry out, good programme, bravo to all involved... Hope we (as in our armed forces) don't have to do it again soon 
3/20/2012 5:16:34 AM
Originally Posted By silentjeff:
I was 10 when this took place, didn't really appreciate it at the time. That was one hell of a mission to carry out, good programme, bravo to all involved... Hope we (as in our armed forces) don't have to do it again soon
I was 10 when this took place, didn't really appreciate it at the time. That was one hell of a mission to carry out, good programme, bravo to all involved... Hope we (as in our armed forces) don't have to do it again soon
3/20/2012 5:48:04 AM
Originally Posted By ACR26:
http://dronewarsuk.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/reaper_pres.jpg?w=497&h=368
Originally Posted By silentjeff:
I was 10 when this took place, didn't really appreciate it at the time. That was one hell of a mission to carry out, good programme, bravo to all involved... Hope we (as in our armed forces) don't have to do it again soon
I was 10 when this took place, didn't really appreciate it at the time. That was one hell of a mission to carry out, good programme, bravo to all involved... Hope we (as in our armed forces) don't have to do it again soon
http://dronewarsuk.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/reaper_pres.jpg?w=497&h=368
Didn't realise they could carry that much ordanance, thought it was just a couple of bombs/missles. For operations down in the South Atlantic they'd still need some kind of floating platform to launch from wouldn't they? Some kind of carrier for aircraft so to speak...
3/20/2012 10:17:36 AM
Originally Posted By silentjeff:
Didn't realise they could carry that much ordanance, thought it was just a couple of bombs/missles. For operations down in the South Atlantic they'd still need some kind of floating platform to launch from wouldn't they? Some kind of carrier for aircraft so to speak...
Originally Posted By ACR26:
http://dronewarsuk.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/reaper_pres.jpg?w=497&h=368
Originally Posted By silentjeff:
I was 10 when this took place, didn't really appreciate it at the time. That was one hell of a mission to carry out, good programme, bravo to all involved... Hope we (as in our armed forces) don't have to do it again soon
I was 10 when this took place, didn't really appreciate it at the time. That was one hell of a mission to carry out, good programme, bravo to all involved... Hope we (as in our armed forces) don't have to do it again soon
http://dronewarsuk.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/reaper_pres.jpg?w=497&h=368
Didn't realise they could carry that much ordanance, thought it was just a couple of bombs/missles. For operations down in the South Atlantic they'd still need some kind of floating platform to launch from wouldn't they? Some kind of carrier for aircraft so to speak...
There is already an aircraft carrier, it's called Mount Pleasant. RAF Mount Pleasant
