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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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