Re: Flying military vehicles

From: dgrev (dgrev@iinet.net.au)
Date: Fri May 26 2006 - 17:21:35 PDT


Jim

> Speaking of fuel and flying military vehicles - there was an excellent
> centre page spread today in the Daily Mail about the bombing raid on the
> Port Stanley runway during the Argentine hoohah of a few years ago..
>
> 3 Vulcan bombers; 20 years past their sell-by-date; outfitted with

I never knew it stretched resources to that point, impressive
effort!

IIRC correctly, from the military point of view it was a bust as
the mission did not succeed in denying the use of the runway
at Port Stanley? If this is so, it must have been a huge disappointment
to all who so obviously did their utmost to get the job done?

Regards
Doug



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