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Sounds the same position as Hong Kong and Gibraltar now left out on their own .
You prefer not to have a say regardless of the merits of the candidates?Who would you have for President.
Tony Blair or Boris Johnson.
So how about we just carry on having an unelected dysfunctional benefit scrounging immigrant family containing adulterers (and a possible paedophile) 'leading' the UK instead
We don't have any Vulcans left and I doubt they would risk taking the new carriers out.
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But does stopping off somewhere allow you to claim it?
I didn't think we had made the planes for the carriers!
I didn't think we had made the planes for the carriers!
I have the book somewhere, describing the first Vulcan raid - it was a terrific feat and an interesting read. It took considerable logistics and planning, to get them there.
And only one bomb hit the runway...
The runway was repaired in under 24 hours!
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there was a documentary about it too - that's how I remember the 9 hours. I think... at least 2 refuels during the flight. I didn't realise it was several weeks after the invasion though, thought it was a case of them being scrambled almost immediately - I blame the documentary on that.
Even so, gone are the days when you could invade a country and it would be months before the army and navy arrived ready for action. Probably why wars used to drag on for so long - it took forever to know what was happening and then be able to respond.
Vulcan 607. My mate lent it to me - hardback - and I read it in bed (I have to read each night to get to sleep). Anyway, the cover was getting on my nerves, flapping about so I took it off and put it under the bed. Mrs Mottie had a tidy up and threw it away. When my mate asked for the book back, I gave him just the book without the cover. He was most annoyed - he had queued up to buy the book and the cover was signed by either the bloke that flew it or the bloke that wrote it (they may have been the same). He's never forgiven me!
Many more than two I think. Before the book I always assumed there was only one mission, but there were in fact several missions. One Vulcan ran low on fuel and had to land in Rio I think and got impounded.
They were no longer equipped for in-flight refuelling, so they had to go chasing round scrap yards and mess rooms for the parts needed to restore the facility.
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You can choose to believe me or not, but I have this from a VERY respected source.
One single Vulcan overflew part of the runway, it didn't hit the runway 'cos it wasn't carrying a bomb.
Propaganda is a powerful tool & history is only ever written by the victor.
One single Vulcan overflew part of the runway, it didn't hit the runway 'cos it wasn't carrying a bomb.
Propaganda is a powerful tool & history is only ever written by the victor.
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I don't blame him.Vulcan 607. My mate lent it to me - hardback - and I read it in bed (I have to read each night to get to sleep). Anyway, the cover was getting on my nerves, flapping about so I took it off and put it under the bed. Mrs Mottie had a tidy up and threw it away. When my mate asked for the book back, I gave him just the book without the cover. He was most annoyed - he had queued up to buy the book and the cover was signed by either the bloke that flew it or the bloke that wrote it (they may have been the same). He's never forgiven me!
Make amends:
https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_...0353.m570.l2632&_nkw=vulcan+607&_sacat=171243
Be careful what you wish for.
Under PR UKIP could of won 83 seats in the 2015 election.
https://www-bbc-com.cdn.ampproject....tps://www.bbc.com/news/election-2015-32601281
It was the Royal Navy who fought the good fight which made it possible to land major Army units to fight the land battle. The RAF had earlier convinced the government in the early '80s that there was no further need for RN aircraft carriers during a Defence Review as the RAF could provide air cover to all navy units by land based RAF fighter/bombers.
If the Argies had waited just another few months, HMS Hermes would have been scrapped and HMS Invincible sold to Australia.
When Argies invaded April 1982, the RAF were then embarrassed by their inability to provide the promised cover, so trumped up the idea of using Vulcans to drop a single bomb on the runway.
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