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Plame Two

Started by lenny100, February 27, 2007, 08:40:02 AM

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Following the failure of their own 880 airliners after the two aircraft crashed due to problems with wing vibration the Conair aircraft corporation look around for a European solution. Also in development was the Hawker-Siddeley HS121 Trident and after some prolonged negations a license agreement was reached allowing the Trident to be built in the states with more powerful engines killing off the Boeing 727 which was canceled by Boeing after just 3 years in production, and saving the company from closing down.
As part of the agreement hawker got the license rights to the super bomber of the day the B-58 Hustler
As part of the OR.336 requirement for a M2.5+ medium bomber a updated version with Spey 203 engines and UK electronics and recon systems which was chosen in 1961

Serving with six squadrons until December 5 1980, after replacing the V force bombers as the only heavy/medium bombers in 1970, when the final GR3 Hustler squadron ,No. 39(1 Photographic Reconnaissance Unit) stood down from its NATO operational status awaiting their new tornado aircraft in 1983.
When the Falklands war started on 2nd April 1982 it was found the RAF had no operational bombers with the range to engage any targets in the war zone.
A quick look around found 4 hustlers still operational due to No. 14 Maintenance Unit at Royal Air Force Carlisle who had been using the airframes for training.
Hastily reequipped with external bomb racks they were used for the famous black buck raids, refueling from 6 Concorde k2 tankers at m1.4 (the first operational supersonic in-flight refueling), as well as the shock raid on Buenos Aires when all 4 aircraft passed over the Argentine capital at super-sonic speed but only at 5,000 feet, dropping copy's of the front pages from two English and two united states newspapers showing the sinking of the aircraft carrier "Veinticinco de Mayo" on their second subsonic low level run before accelerating back to M2.5 leaving the intercepting Dassault Mirage III far behind. After this the war was quickly over following a uprising of the people who had been told that they were winning the war and had sunk most of the royal navy during a large sea battle and there was no danger to the capital from uk forces.

again just finishing off
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