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Old March 29th 04, 01:08 PM
Alistair Gunn
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Guy Alcala twisted the electrons to say:
One bomb from the Vulcan.


Well it's pretty much typical (IMHO) of Evan Brennan to make much of the
solitary bomb hit from the (3?) Vulcan raids - the reasons for which have
been well covered in in smn before - however it did occur to me that it's
curious that he regards the Vulcan raids as ineffective, yet believes
that Argentina held its Mirages back for air-defence of the mainland.
(Where they worried about ineffective raids on Argentina perhaps? :-)

[Guy: Obviously, risks worth taking in landing on a rough runway
during the war wouldn't be taken afterwards. 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].


I think another possible factor is the differing fuel loads for a C-130
doing Stanley - Argentina, as opposed to Stanley - Wideawake ...
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These opinions might not even be mine ...
Let alone connected with my employer ...
 




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