If I may suggest an answer. They could not use Stanley airfield as a military airfield because they would have had to accept 500 50lb 4.5" dustbins landing on it every night. They knew that and would not take the risk. They were not daft. You would not put the best of your air force in un-protected positions exposed to enemy shelling. That's why they never tried it and they knew it.
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