If you don't already own Vulcan 607

£3.69 on Amazon, where some have given it bad reviews based on their view that the runway wasn’t hit and destroyed… Who is right?

edit: just found some material on thunder & lightnings

Yawn. I thought it had been pretty comprehensively proved by now that there was significant damage to the runway that the Argentinians did not have time to do anything other than roughly fill with rubble. There was a thread about it a while back with some pretty compelling material.

Incidentally Pook notes in the book referred to in my last post that when the Harriers got to Stanley after the shooting war, a lot of work had to be done to put the runway back in action.

Pretty poor reason to criticise the book anyway. Was the reviewer a Mr Ward by any chance?!

I bought it from Sainsbury’s yesterday for £4:99, as my fathers day present, ( my missus bought me Johnny Kingdoms bio, brilliant ), so I have a lot of reading to catch up on.
Hows this for a saturday night, we ignored the telly and read our own books on our individual settees and both fell asleep, how sad.
It’s a really great read, I managed 150 pages last night and am indulging myself in the garden with it and a glass of red wine at the moment while she insists on doing dinner before the inlaws arrive.
My only comment so far is that on the day of Thatchers war speech in the House, which I think was on a saturday morning, we were on our way up to a wedding on the Notts Lincs border, on the way we deliberately drove through Waddo to see what was happening and it was a hive of activity, erks, troops, Vulcans being towed around, it was obvious that things were happening which wasn’t suggested in the book, but I have the slides to prove it, they must have wondered why these well dressed Herberts were snapping away from a car, wonder we were’nt shot as the troops were tooled up and looked alert, at that point we knew it was serious, it took the fun out of the wedding as we wondered whether some of these servicemen we had seen would not survive whatever was in store for them.

£3.69 on Amazon, where some have given it bad reviews based on their view that the runway wasn’t hit and destroyed… Who is right?

edit: just found some material on thunder & lightnings

A word here of commiseration for all the guys actually slaving away on the Vulcan that it didn’t make the Falklands Fly-past.

I have criticised the project in the past, but today they must be simply gutted and I feel for them.

Hear hear. All sarcastic smileys off, that’s very big of you Moggy.

Must be crushing not to make the appearance that’s been the target for so long, but I understand they are very close to flying now, I’ll keep everything crossed.

BTW I’ve just finished Sq Ldr Jerry Pook’s ‘RAF Harrier Ground Attack Falklands’. This is another excellent Falklands book that taught me a lot about air operations over the islands that I just didn’t know about. A bit of inter-service bitching (imagine Sharkey Ward in light blue) but still a very well put together book and some great photos too (the highlight for me being a low level photo recon pic of some very startled looking Argentinian soldiers trying to get a Blowpipe pointed at the photographer!)

Half way thru the book,pleased it highlights the ground side as well. Although I was in the mob at the time on the ground side with the Nimrod fleet I was ever aware of all the effort needed to make Black Buck happen.

Ref the Vulcan and the flypast today.A negative has been turned into a positive.The news coverage is including the fact that it is missing and thats all free publicity which should help the appeal for funding.

The one little detail that wrankled with me was the author’s belief that the world service start-up theme was Lili Marlene, rather than Lilly Bolero

But if that’s the worst criticism…..

A word here of commiseration for all the guys actually slaving away on the Vulcan that it didn’t make the Falklands Fly-past.

I have criticised the project in the past, but today they must be simply gutted and I feel for them.

Moggy

My old dear just thrust this under my nose last night. I’m not that really smitten by the Vulcan to be honest, but the book does seem rather well written. I read the first 75 pages last night and that’s very good going for me!

I bought the book at Schipol airport monday and I enjoying the book:D

Rowland White must be dead chuffed with the response the book has got.

He is. I discussed a few errors with him when he came to visit me whilst researching for a future book, I will not say what it is about for now.

I was most impressed by his courteous and interested manner. Rowland clearly puts in much diligent research whilst preparing a book.

Fairly sure they have been taken over, but some stores changing the branding quicker than others.

I ripped through ‘607 in a matter of days, then lent it to my dad who did the same. He passed it on to my brother who is more a car man than aircraft buff, but he could also not put it down. Currently, my mum is reading it!

Rowland White must be dead chuffed with the response the book has got.

Ottakers now have the softback on half-price offer

Moggy

Ottakers? I thought they had been taken over by Waterstones.

Not nit-pickin just surprised as our local Ottakers is now Waterstones and I recall reading in the lead up to the take-over.

Still £3.73 in Tesco, too.