Black Buck One, the Vulcan Raid on the Falklands - Animated
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Black Buck One, the Vulcan Raid on the Falklands - Animated
Operation Black Buck One, 30th April—1st May 1982 - 2 Avro Vulcans and 11 Handley Page Victors take off from Ascension Island to complete, at the time, the longest bombing raid in history on Port Stanley Airfield on the Falkland Islands during the Falklands War. Source - Vulcan 607 by Rowland White Images kindly provided by my friends at ...
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RAF Ascension Island History
In 1982, during the Falklands War, the RAF launched one of the most audacious missions in military history — Operation Black Buck. Flying from Ascension Island to the Falklands — nearly 8,000 miles — Vulcan bombers carried out a precision strike on Argentina’s airfield at Port Stanley. It was a mission so dangerous and complex, even the Americans thought it was impossible. This is the true story of the flight that proved Britain still had reach — and courage — in the Cold War’s final years. #Bri
In 1982, during the Falklands War, the RAF launched one of the most audacious missions in military history — Operation Black Buck. Flying from Ascension Island to the Falklands — nearly 8,000 miles — Vulcan bombers carried out a precision strike on Argentina’s airfield at Port Stanley. It was a mission so dangerous and complex, even the Americans thought it was impossible. This is the true story of the flight that proved Britain still had reach — and courage — in the Cold War’s final years. #Bri
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Approach and landing at Ascension Island The station comes under the overall jurisdiction of the Commander British Forces South Atlantic Islands, The RAF airfield on Ascension Island is run on a day-to-day basis by around 19 RAF personnel, headed by a wing commander. RAF Ascension Island is also the refueling point for the Ministry of Defence's South Atlantic airbridge flights to RAF Mount Pleasant, on the Falkland Islands, from RAF Brize Norton. Wideawake Airfield (named for a noisy colony of s
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Approach and landing at Ascension Island The station comes under the overall jurisdiction of the Commander British Forces South Atlantic Islands, The RAF airfield on Ascension Island is run on a day-to-day basis by around 19 RAF personnel, headed by a wing commander. RAF Ascension Island is also the refueling point for the Ministry of Defence's South Atlantic airbridge flights to RAF Mount Pleasant, on the Falkland Islands, from RAF Brize Norton. Wideawake Airfield (named for a noisy colony of s
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2.6K views · 170 reactions | Earlier this week, a RAF A400M aircraft transported doses of the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine to Ascension Island – a UK Overseas Territory in the South Atlantic ocean. It will become the first island to be fully vaccinated against Covid-19. | Ministry of Defence | Facebook
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2.6K views · 170 reactions | Earlier this week, a RAF A400M aircraft transported doses of the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine to Ascension Island – a UK Overseas Territory in the South Atlantic ocean. It will become the first island to be fully vaccinated against Covid-19. | Ministry of Defence | Facebook
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