Photos of Victor Tankers Asension
 

I am looking for photos of the Victor tankers at Widewake from April 1982 through the Falklands war and right up to the last tanker leaving in mid 1985.


Photos of the damage to XL232 after the HDU Failure, the Landing by XL 190 with the nose wheel retracted.


Also any photos of the Victor City with a note stating what the tent was used for


I am the author of the book THE HANDLEY PAGE Victor Vol 1 & 2
Published by Pen and Sword

Many thanks Manxman57

Manx,
have a look at page 4 there was a thread "victor K2 with drogue deployed low level" some discussion including XL232 issue.


Have a chat with Tony Blackman. He may be able to help.

No piccies, sorry, but I see from my logbook that, whilst at ASI for OP LAMPUCA, we did an AAR trip on 24 June 1985 in VC10K2 ZA144 in support of 'The last last Victor from ASI'. Only a 1:00 trip, so I guess we gave them a top up so that they could back to Marham direct?

It looked rather sorry for itself, poor old beast.

Tony Blackman Book Victor Boys
 

Thanks for the suggestion I bought my book way back in 2012 then I found a number of errors so gave up and stored it if you would like a copy of the errors send me your email by pm


Manxman57

Manxman57,

I PM'd you about Victors on Asi
I'm not sure if you received it or not.
Anyway if you are interested I was Tanker Ops on Asi Sept 82 to Apr 83, I have quite a few photos.