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Goodbye Vulcan: Blighty's nuclear bomber retires for the last time

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My dear old dad spent a significant part of his RAF career on board these aircraft, which meant we as a family were regularly subjected to the noise of them taking off at all hours of the day and night.

Anyway, he also told me something interesting about the Falklands bombing raids: they refused to orient their bombing runs along the length of the runway, but instead chose to run perpendicular to it, which of course made it much, much more difficult to hit the target. Exactly why they did that, I don't remember.

There were also tankers to refuel the tankers, such was the demand for fuel for these largely ineffective raids.

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