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Air-to-Air Refuelling Plan, Marham News, South Atlantic Special 1982
Library, In Storage, 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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- Handley Page Victor K.2
- Bomber Aircraft [4]
- Flight Refuelling Tanker Aircraft [4]
- Hawker-Siddeley Vulcan B.2 [4]
- Training Aircraft [3]
- Vickers Varsity T Mk. 1 [3]
- British Aircraft Corporation Lightning [2]
- English Electric Canberra [2]
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- Hawker-Siddeley Sea Harrier FRS.1 [2]
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- Falklands Conflict, 1982 [5]
- Port Stanley airfield attacks, 1982
- Cold War, 1946-1989 [3]
- Giant Voice, 1974 [1]
- Granby, 1990-1991 [1]
- Gulf War, 1990-1991 [1]
- Indonesia Confrontation, 1962-1966 [1]
- Red Flag [1]
- Suez Crisis, 1956 [1]
- V-2 Attacks, 1944-1945 [1]