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Re: Black Buck


 

Brian makes me look like a dunce!
John

On Saturday, 6 March 2021, 09:13:28 GMT, John Miller via groups.io <johnmiller051118@...> wrote:


Sorry Chris, but I don't think it's as agile & manouverable as a Tornado. Though of course I am no expert on these things! I was trained to make medicines!
?I can't force you to contact my friend Brian, but I think you would gain a lot from one another. He probably shouldn't tell me ?but he goes to GCHQ?

?& has contacts in the US National Security agency.
Brian & Jane Turton <turtonj1@...>;
Brian Turton <brian.turton@...>;
John??


On Saturday, 6 March 2021, 07:27:14 GMT, zuiko <ftog@...> wrote:


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



On 5 Mar 21, at 20:33, John Miller via <johnmiller051118@...> wrote:

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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