.........& when the Poms get the bugs ironed out........

[4bee]

.........will Temora Aviation buy it?:D


http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30100-1288877,00.html

[Phoenix]

I'm glad to see that they are finally getting it into the air. it's taken them a while.

[PAT303]

They say that it flew the longest bombing run in history,they didn't say it missed the stanley airfield after three runs with about 30 bombs,half off which didn't go of because they didn't prime them.One of the fleet air arm pilots worked out that the three missions used about 3.5 million,give or take litres of fuel to get zero result.They done it to get the RAF in the war. Pat

[JohnE]

Pat missed the airfield is an understatement, i walked the defensive positions when i was there and there is a line of bomb craters, about half a km from the runway, judging by the size of the craters and the large pieces of shrapnel i picked up, it must have been from the vulcan craters big enoug to almost put a falklands house in them, will try to find the photos, I took those with the non digital camera and the movie camera.


john

[JohnE]

Not a hijack but an extension on what the vulcan bomber did,
here you go Pat, direct from the source,

stanley airfield from the air obviously( from the right hand seat of a brittan norman islander and no i wasn;t flying it)
to the right of the runway is where the bulk of the argentine airfield defensive forces were, the area of green is where the following photos were taken
http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w248/JohnE_1/FalklandsExperience061.jpg


bomb craters, see the string, i am standing over one, there are two obvious and one other behind it closer to the dunes
http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w248/JohnE_1/Scan10039.jpg


the one I am standing over looking towards the others
http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w248/JohnE_1/Scan10040.jpg


this is the remains of a foxhole, this and another were exactly 1 metre from the edge of the closest crater, survivability zero, I have a better view of it on video, plus the rest of the emplacements and the remains of the anti acraft gun plus all the foxhole bits i found, ammo, webbing, and bits of kit, and miles of phone cable
http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w248/JohnE_1/Scan10042.jpg

my foot and the average size bits of shrapnel I found around the craters, guess they would cut you to bits and the rest.

http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w248/JohnE_1/Scan10041.jpg



thats a real history blast for me reading the article and walking the ground they bombed!


john

[Bushie]

I can remember watching Vulcans and Victors flying around when I was a kid.

Don't recall seeing any Valiants - but probably did.


Martyn