From: Convoy Magazine (convoymagazine@yahoo.com)
Date: Sat May 27 2006 - 06:17:47 PDT
Great story Jim!
Monty
--- Jim Webster <james.webster@iomartdsl.com> wrote:
> 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
> conventional bomb racks rescued from a scrapyard
> because the planes were
> last used for the nuclear role; inertial navigation
> systems salvaged
> from old British Airways VC-10 and with pocket
> calculators to check the
> navigation set a record by flying a combat mission
> 4000m across water
> and hitting the target.
>
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