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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 [1]
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- Hawker-Siddeley Vulcan B.2 [1]
- Tanker Aircraft [1]
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- Ascension Island [2]
- RAF Ascension Island
- RAF Marham [2]
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