Ian wrote:

"Evan Brennan" wrote in message
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Guy Alcala wrote in message
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British and Argentine writers said the same thing about Mirage
fighters, so your accusations are as poorly aimed as the British bombs
falling on Stanley airfield. : )


May have missed it somewhere else in the thread, (and I know it's got a
smiley after it) but wasn't the error on the Vulcan raid due to the
cartographer putting the wrong co-ordinates on the map?

Doubt it, since the first raid hit the runway almost dead center, albeit
long (the first bomb of the stick hit the runway, the next just off the
edge, with the rest continuing off to the southwest). The second raid was
slightly short for range but straddling, but considerably off for line if
they were aiming at the middle of the runway like the first raid. The stick
was centered perhaps 200 feet (eyeballing the recon photo) off the west end
of the runway. They were using radar offsets; at least the first raid
(according to Middlebrook) used Mengeary Point, a couple of miles short of
and almost on a direct line from the runway on the run-in heading of 235
deg.M (the runway is aligned 085/265), as the offset.

Guy