Black Buck - why Victor pilots on the Vulcans?
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Black Buck - why Victor pilots on the Vulcans?
I quote from the wikipedia entry on Operation Black Buck:
Surely the Vulcan crews were trained to fly the Vulcan during refuelling, so why the need for a Victor instructor to take over?
The Vulcan was over its normal maximum take-off weight—each carried, as well as extra equipment like the DASH 10 and a chemical toilet, a highly experienced Air to Air Refuelling Instructor (AARI) from the Victor tanker force who would fly the Vulcan during refuelling