On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 07:56:25PM +0100, Cotty wrote: > On 16/4/08, Christian, discombobulated, unleashed: > > >Those things bombed the Falklands while I was living in Argentina. > > Interestingly, and aside from carrying the British nuclear deterrent > during the cold war, that was the only action a Vulcan ever saw.
That was, for a while, the longest non-stop flight on a service mission; a record now held by the B2 bomber (set during the Gulf War). I believe the Vulcan had to be refuelled five times during the flight. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
