With regards to the RAF on the Falkland Islands, I thought the Tornados were in the process of being replaced by Typhoons?

Or am I getting ahead of myself… :p

Carpetbagger,

There are pics on here from that movie – somewhere… Once someone gets the title spot-on have a search (if you can stand it) and pics and the story behind them will magically appear…

Me, I’m going to sink to a spectacularly anal level of pedantry. Even for me.

Memphis Belle (part 2). Any shot of the English countryside. There’s “tramlines” in the crops – but leaving tramlines for sprayers didn’t come in until pesticides etc began to be widely used in the 1950s – 1960s. Terrible – shouldn’t be allowed.

Adrian

I know it is almost six months since the last posting on this thread (incidently by me) but having just watched Memphis Belle for the first time in yonks I felt I had another mistake to add here.

I realise that there were only limited numbers of B17s available for the film and that each airframe was painted to represent a different aircraft with different names painted on each side. If however you watch the head on shots of the aircraft taxiing for take off you can clearly see different names and pictures painted on opposite sides of the same aircraft!

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just finished reading Vulcan 607 and what a good bok it was too but just gives you an idea of how close a run thing the bombing of the airfield really was but the question is how many more times could they have bombed the Falklands if the rest of the attack force became incapacitated to some degree. Or would the Argentine airforce have been more able to seek out and shoot down the Victors and Vulcans.

Incidentally and nothing to do with aviation but while I was in the army our Corporal that was in charge of us Juniors was in 2 Para before he moved onto the RCT. I suppose there is kind of a link to aviation really as the base we were on was part of RAF Colerne or at least the old RAF Colerne.

If the Falklands War had continued where is the closest airfield to the Falklands that the RAF could have based a squadron of Vulcans (or the new fangled Tornado) for more regular raids on Argentine positions?
I don’t only mean British owned bases, surely there are other nations whose view of the Argentine invasion was such that they would have been willing to play host to the RAF.

If the war had carried on I don’t think Maggie would have had any problems removing the Argies from our shores, it may have taken slightly longer but at that time we were certainly capable of such actions.

Thanks.

The markings should be where the outer plyons would be fitted. The pylons swivel so the markings would fit in with the movement range. See the images of the GR.4s.

Cheers

TJ

I would have thought when they redesigned the GR1 into the F2/3 as well as altering the fusalage they might also have altered the wings!

4. I’d imagine either an RAF F-15A, or more likely, a fully upgraded F-4 Phantom similar to the Luftwaffe’s…..

I’d like to add one or two…

5. What if Britain didn’t subscribe to the Tornado concept at all? Radically upgraded Buccaneers or rehashed TSR-2?
6. Apartheid never ended, forcing the development of a strike and fighter jet to replace the Canberra, Buccaneer and Mirages with a mostly indigenous effort?

Personally I can’t see that the Government of the time (or any Government!) would have reopened the TSR2 programme. I think the Buccaneer would have been upgraded to have become a much more competant strike aircraft than the Tornado has become.
No Tornado would have left a vacancy for an air defence aircraft, I’m torn between Phantom or possibly Hunters filling that role? Not sure of the Hunters full capabilities in Air Defence.