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Just before they were about to be retired, they had to come up with a long range refuel mission to bomb Stanley Airfield in the Falkland Islands to prevent the Argentine Air Force from using it.

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PO2 Marco Monsalve
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Ran into some Vulcans on Midway Island in 1970. Neat aircraft, they had a distinctive engine howl.
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They actually had one flying for historical purposes until a few years ago. Just got too expensive to maintain but at least this is a swan song modern video of the famous British bomber seen in the James Bond movie and the unexpected hero of the Falkland Islands war.

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Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen PO2 Marco Monsalve
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LTC (Join to see) The Vulcan and B-58 were of the same era and tactical mindset. Both great aircraft but situations and defenses overcame their effectiveness. When I first went to B-52s in early 70s, there were a few crew members in our squadron who had come fron B-58s. They loved the aircraft but it just could no longer accomplish what the SAC mission had become.
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Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen yes and they were going to do the xb70 plane and that ended up being obsolete as well.

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LTC (Join to see) Exactly, and for the same reasons. High speed, high altitude became obsolete due to Soviet SAM advances. Still is in contested airspace for that matter.
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It was a great aircraft for sure.
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