On 30 Mar 2004 21:26:39 -0800, (Evan Brennan)
wrote:

Guy Alcala wrote in message ...
One of the Argentine C-130s almost crashed on takeoff during the war when a
main gear wheel hit the corner of the roughly-repaired Vulcan crater]


"Almost" crashed? How many Harriers have almost crashed?

Spin Doctor Guy Alcala has again left out a number of inconvenient
facts -- thirty-three inconvenient facts, in this case. Between May
1st and June 13th, 1982, Argentine C-130 Hercules transports operated
33 flights into the airfield at Port Stanley, carrying 434 tons of
cargo and 514 personnel. They also managed to evacuate 264 wounded.
Evidently, the crater was not quite the detriment you and the RAF
would like us to believe.

Don't talk tosh - Guy specifically stated that the runway was still
useable....

"The Argentinians had temporarily back-filled the five large craters,
enabling them to continue to fly in C-130 Hercules transports right up
to the end"

Neither did he leave out many facts in a detailed description of the
damage to the runway and the repairs to it.

SO you're the one doing the spin doctoring.......as usual.

---
Peter Kemp

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