britgliderpilot Posted June 5, 2006 Posted June 5, 2006 Didn't that happen in the Falklands war when they kept meeting Argentinian C-130s on recce in the S. Atlantic? Apparently the Nimrod never made it down to the Falklands during that conflict ;) Or so a certain RN Commander who wrote a disgruntled book about his experiences says - sure the RAF will say different, of course. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v121/britgliderpilot/BS2Britgliderpilot-1.jpg
Kula66 Posted June 5, 2006 Posted June 5, 2006 All the books I've read by RN officers slag off the RAF! Which book do you refer to? I thought the Nimrods did some very very long sorties of the War ... they just couldn'r reach that far and get back!
britgliderpilot Posted June 5, 2006 Posted June 5, 2006 All the books I've read by RN officers slag off the RAF! Which book do you refer to? I thought the Nimrods did some very very long sorties of the War ... they just couldn'r reach that far and get back! Sea Harrier Over The Falklands, although No Escape Zone does slag off the RAF something rotten as well. Nothing quite matches Sharkey Ward's venom for his command and the RAF, though . . . . . grin. According to him, the closest the Nimrod got to the Falklands was 600 miles north of them. Close, but not close enough. The Vulcans, though, got all the way there and seemed to miss every time . . . . . I will agree with Commander Ward's assessment that it was a bit of a waste of jet fuel, but as an exercise in flight planning and just for the "because we can value", I think every one of those sorties was utterly magnificent. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v121/britgliderpilot/BS2Britgliderpilot-1.jpg
Kula66 Posted June 6, 2006 Posted June 6, 2006 Ward's book is a great read ... Long time since I read it ... but his description of his flight home sticks in the memory!
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