james@castle.ed.ac.uk (J Gillespie) (04/01/91)
From: J Gillespie <james@castle.ed.ac.uk> cga66@ihlpy.att.com (Patrick V Kauffold) writes: >Black Buck 6 - 2 June 1982. Target Argentine radar installations on >East Falklands. Launched 2 Shrikes. Diverted to Rio de Janeiro when >refueling probe broke off. Which is another mini-epic in itself. From what I remember from the book "Air War South Atlantic", the aircraft was _very_ low on fuel by the time it got to Rio. It ended up too high on the approach, and the pilot did a spiral dive to lose altitude. Rather a dangerous manoeuvre in a large aeroplane at low altitude, but as it turned out there wasn't enough fuel left in the tanks for a circuit. Pretty impressive flying. -- James Gillespie Edinburgh University james@ed.ac.uk