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Old 19th Feb 2014, 19:04
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It would have been an extremely capable tanker, with considerable AT capability.
On the handful of occasions each month that it actually worked! I remember trying to get to Iraq in it once:

Outbound - First attempt aborted at around 100KIAS, second attempt got us to Basrah.

Return - First attempt failed to depart from Brize, 2 hours later the spare ac also went U/S.

That's an impressive 25% success rate. Still, maybe it worked first time every other day of the month.... Great aircraft in its day but that day has quite definitely passed.
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