Avro continued working on his visions, and the Avro Vulcan bomber later became the most advanced bomber aircraft of the Royal Air Force from 1956 to 1984. Primarily, Vulcan was intended as a high ...

On May 1st 1982, a single Vulcan flew over Port Stanley and bombed the airfield there, achieving a direct hit which rendered it unusable by fighter aircraft. The plane was retired by the RAF in 1984.

The FCO judged that a strike aircraft would ?be entirely suitable for an attack on the Falklands' (In fact, a British Vulcan bomber carried out an remarkable bomb attack on Stanley airport during ...