Yes, it was gutsy stuff, and quite effective, even though the poor old Vulcan missed the runway with all but one of its bombs (dumb bombs, aimed with a radar plot).
The Chinook is quite a beast and quite manoeuvrable, even at that size and weight. ?I had a trip in one a couple of years ago . . .
Chris
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It was the Falkands war & it was refeulled by Victor tankers. They didn't have enough fuel to make it back to Ascension Island:
"The commanding officer said do we go on?"
"All the crew said we go on!"
This was the Professionalism of the RAF!
Andy Macknap said ?in their Chinook:
"If ?we get any enemy fire, we'll come back & pick you up!"
Well a Chinook is a flying schoolbus. It can carry a lot of weight! But it is agile & as monouverable as crap!
John
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