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Operations Black Buck 1 to Black Buck 7 were seven extremely long-range airstrikes conducted during the 1982 Falklands War by Royal Air Force (RAF) Vulcan bombers of the RAF Waddington Wing, comprising aircraft from Nos. 44, 50 and 101 Squadrons, against Argentine positions in the Falkland Islands. Five of the missions completed attacks.
1 Royal Air Force [12] 18 Special Air Service [12] 3 Royal Corps of Signals (Army) [11] [12] Aircraft Lost in the Air:, no suffix: Fleet Air Arm. 2 Sea Harrier FRS.1 (hit by anti-aircraft fire during 4 May attack on Goose Green and by Roland missile during 1 June attack on Port Stanley) [13] 3 Westland Gazelle AH.1 Army and Royal Marines [11] [14]
One Vulcan, XH558 (G-VLCN) Spirit of Great Britain, was used as a display aircraft by the RAF as part of the Vulcan Display Flight until 1993. After being grounded, it was later restored to flight by the Vulcan To The Sky Trust and displayed as a civilian aircraft from 2008 until 2015, before being retired a second time for engineering reasons.
Operation Folklore was a plan to deploy two Canberra PR.9 aircraft of No. 39 Squadron RAF, disguised in Chilean Air Force markings, to the Chilean air base at Punta Arenas, with the intention of undertaking high-level photo-reconnaissance flights over the Falklands; [101] however the Canberras had reached Belize when the operation was abandoned ...
The helicopter had been detailed to fly a medical flight at night picking up a pregnant patient from Dhekalia and transferring her to The Princess Mary Hospital, RAF Akrotiri. Three RAF personnel were killed including a Princess Mary's Royal Air Force Nursing Service nurse. The pilot survived, but neither the bodies or the airframe have been ...
Taken in 1982, at RAF Waddington stood in front of the Avro Vulcan just before it left for the Falklands war. The members of the General Engineering Firm, and the flight crew. The Vulcan went on to bomb Port Stanley during the war. Later in the 1980s my Dad went to help rebuild Port Stanley.
A Royal Air Force Avro Vulcan B.2 XM597 on Operation Black Buck during the Falklands War is forced to divert to Brazil after breaking a refuelling-probe. The aircraft was interned at the Brazilian air force base, Aérea de Santa Cruz, Rio de Janeiro and was allowed to leave nine days later due to the arrival of Pope John Paul II on a pastoral ...
The RAF previously had a small airfield at Port Stanley Airport after the end of the hostilities in 1982. During the Falklands War when the islands were occupied by Argentine military forces, British aircraft were sent to disable the runway with RAF Strike Command Vulcan bombers (Operation Black Buck) and Royal Navy Sea Harriers.