500N wrote
Not too sure why Thomas said the following.....
Because he is still thinks that none of the Vulcan bombs did any damage to the runway.
RAF News, April 26th 2002, has a piece from retired Air Commodore John Davis. Davis was the first commander of the operations wing at RAF Stanley. In relation to the runway crater from the first Black Buck mission Davis wrote "This rogue crater required a succession of repairs amid what soon became high intensity air operations."