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Air-to-Air Refuelling Plan, Marham News, South Atlantic Special 1982
Library, London, Hangar Six, X008-4556
The refuelling plan on display is for Operation BLACK BUCK, which required 18 tanker sorties to fuel one Vulcan bomber on a 6,800-mile roundtrip to attack targets on the Falkland Islands. At the time, these were the longest bombing missions ever flown.
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- Ascension Island [3]
- RAF Marham
- RAF Scampton [2]
- RAF South Cerney [2]
- Singapore [2]
- Brunei [1]
- Cyprus [1]
- Falkland Islands [1]
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- Falklands Conflict, 1982 [3]
- Port Stanley airfield attacks, 1982
- Cold War, 1946-1989 [2]
- Giant Voice, 1974 [1]
- Granby, 1990-1991 [1]
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- Indonesia Confrontation, 1962-1966 [1]
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