Warbird Information Exchange

That is one bad azz jet - Ever drop a bomb in anger ?

Xray, yes she did, 21 one of them on the airfield at Port Stanley in the Falklands taking out the hardstandings and putting a big hole in the main runway denying it to fast jet ops. Also launched the Shrike missile provided by you lovely Americans and took out a radar battery or two. Hard to believe that's it, thought I had seen the last flight of a Vulcan over twenty years ago when they left service!

Well you guys had quite a treat for quite a while, post retirement jet bomber flights are all but unprecedented.

Well, actually they left service over 30 years ago......only this was kept on as a display a/c (and XL426 for a short while before) between the retirement from service in 1984 and the end of the Vulcan Display Flight in 1992.

And, I suspect if someone had said to Martin Withers when he stepped down from Vulcan XM607 after he drooped that stick of 21 x 1000lb'rs on Port Stanley runway in 1982, that it would be him that would have the honor of flying the last ever Vulcan flight some 34 years later in 2015, he would have thought they were barking mad.

Worth watching... www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBJ99bIhAVk

Will

Agreed Blackbirdfan.
That was totally worth watching.
Thanks for the link.

I can only imagine how those crews must have felt being met by those final tankers!

Andy

Yeah nice doc - Surprising they were so far out of the loop with long range missions and refueling, but I guess at just that time RAF was about to get out of heavy bombing anyhow.