One of three aircraft designed to form a part of Britain’s V-bomber fleet to carry the country’s independent nuclear deterrent alongside the Valiant and Victor, the Avro Vulcan was perhaps one of the most iconic aircraft to have been designed and built in the UK in the postwar years. Ironically, however, the type’s most famous action did not involve combating the threat of international communism but from the Argentinian invasion of the Falkland Islands in April 1982. In two of the most carefully planned and audacious aviation raids in history, Vulcans from RAF Waddington attacked the airfield at Port Stanley in early May 1982 in order to prevent the airfield being used by Argentinian Air Force fighters. The success of the raids was an essential part of the ultimate British victory in the South Atlantic.

ISBN13 / EAN: 9781857802566
ISBN10:            185780256X
Author(s): Phil Butler and Tony Buttler
Size: 280 x 215mm
Format: 176pp
Illustrations: c300 mono and colour illustrations
Product Type: Softback Book 
Weight: 592g




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