Vulcan 607 By Rowland White (Paperback, 2007)

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It was to be one of the most ambitious operations since 617 Squadron bounced their revolutionary bombs into the dams of the Ruhr Valley in 1943 April 1982 Argentine forces had invaded the Falkland Islands Britain needed an answer & fast The idea was simple to destroy the vital landing strip at Port Stanley The reality was more complicated The only aircraft that could possibly do the job was three months from being scrapped & the distance it had to travel was four thousand miles beyond its maximum range It would take fifteen Victor tankers & seventeen separate in-flight refuellings to get one Avro Vulcan B2 over the target & give its crew any chance of coming back alive Yet less than a month later a formation of elderly British jets launched from a remote island airbase to carry out the longest-range air attack in history At its head was a single aircraft six men & twenty-one thous&-pound bombs facing the hornet's nest of modern weaponry defending the Argentine forces on the Falkland Islands There would be no second chances