Originally Posted by
fantaman
Just finished reading the excellent Vulcan 607 book by Roland White. In it he tells the story of how the RAF had to run around robbing refuelling probes for the Vulcans about to deploy to the South Atlantic. They even sent a Herc full of techies to the USAF museum at Castle AFB to rob the probe from the one that had been donated months earleir
As far as I can remember, most Vulcans still had probes fitted at the time of the Falklands war, it was the 'Y' coupler from the refuelling probe, to the fuel pipes either side of the nose that were missing.
The Vulcan probes were robbed for the Hercules and Nimrod fleets.