I have seen various copies of these plans but none of them show the Latitude and Longitude of the refuelling brackets any help would be appreciated as the only copy I have found was in a RAF History Journal on line and that is password protected. Data Required for a research project . In addition data on the Vulcan and Victor Fuel Consumption would be appreciated.
By: Stan Smith - 2nd July 2013 at 04:25
Resmoroh. During my airline career I had the privilege of Adolf Galland as a guest on the Flight Deck. (Those were the days when we could take visitors.—Long gone in todays P.C.world).
As best I can I quote ” The reason we lost the War and you guys won was because we made more damn fool mistakes then your lot, and they certainly made plenty.”
By: 1batfastard - 1st July 2013 at 18:51
Hi All,
According to the History channel Falklands special it was a very ,very close run thing on all fronts perhaps mainly loss of equipment on the sunk container ship ?
Geoff.
By: Resmoroh - 1st July 2013 at 16:58
Trenchardbrat,
Was there at the time.
Best bet is that you start from Wiki (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Black_Buck) and work from there. The thing that made us (Met men there at the time) fall about was that all these calculations of fuel-flow/temp/consumption, etc, etc, were carried out on a calculator bought – so current scuttlebutt has it – on Swaffham Market for pence!!
Makes it more probable that WE didn’t win the Falklands Unpleasantness, THEY lost it, because THEY made more/bigger mistakes than WE did! Or is that not British???
Resmoroh
By: TwinOtter23 - 1st July 2013 at 16:54
You could try asking via this website http://www.vforcereunion.co.uk/ IIRC in 2010 & 2012 details were being discussed at the reunion event at NAM.
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