http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01jhb3d
Radio 4 drama about getting the Vulcan to Port Stanley.
For you Vulcan afficiandos might be interesting.
“During the Falklands War 30 years ago, the RAF staged the world’s longest bombing run, in an attempt to damage the runway at Port Stanley. Using ageing Vulcan bombers, crews flew a round trip of 8000 miles from Ascension Island to the South Atlantic. Such a journey required not just in-flight refuelling, but re-fuelling of the refuelling planes – a hazardous undertaking that had never before been attempted on such a scale.”
By: Stratofreighter - 6th June 2012 at 15:03
The link has been posted before about these parts but in this You Tube Clip “Reflections on Operation Black Buck” you get other personal takes on the Ops from Martin Withers and Andy Marson!
That link is certainly worth clicking on! 🙂
Another link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40knj0qg_Us points to a 45-minute dramatised documentary with some more participants beside the above-mentioned.
Viewers in the UK may already have seen it on the telly earlier this year… 😉
By: Bruggen 130 - 6th June 2012 at 13:36
bombs
Nothing against the RAF effort and it may have been the world’s longest bombing run at the time….but” From 2 to 3 September 1996, two B-52H struck Baghdad power stations and communications facilities with 13 AGM-86C conventional air-launched cruise missiles (CALCM) as part of Operation Desert Strike, a 34-hour, 16,000-mile round trip mission from Andersen AFB, Guam – the longest distance ever flown for a combat mission.”
Also, B-2s have flown combat missions to Kosovo, Iraq and Afghanistan from Missouri. Some missions are said to have lasted 50 hours.
Nothing against the USAF effort but there is a big difference between flying
OVER hostile territory and dropping BOMBS to flying 16,000 miles and launching cruise missiles whilst flying over friendly territory, how many miles
from launch to target? and whats more why from Guam did they not have
anything nearer to the target or was it as I suspect just a propagandar
effort claim the longest mission. So sorry it was not a bombing mission
All tongue in cheek of course
By: TwinOtter23 - 6th June 2012 at 08:43
Reflections on Operation Black Buck
The link has been posted before about these parts but in this You Tube Clip “Reflections on Operation Black Buck” you get other personal takes on the Ops from Martin Withers and Andy Marson!
By: J Boyle - 6th June 2012 at 03:39
Nothing against the RAF effort and it may have been the world’s longest bombing run at the time….but” From 2 to 3 September 1996, two B-52H struck Baghdad power stations and communications facilities with 13 AGM-86C conventional air-launched cruise missiles (CALCM) as part of Operation Desert Strike, a 34-hour, 16,000-mile round trip mission from Andersen AFB, Guam – the longest distance ever flown for a combat mission.”
Also, B-2s have flown combat missions to Kosovo, Iraq and Afghanistan from Missouri. Some missions are said to have lasted 50 hours.
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