40 years ago today, during the Falklands conflict, the Royal Air Force began a series of bombing missions using Vulcan bombers from RAF Waddington. These missions were known as Operation Black Buck. The first mission departed from Ascension Island on the night of 30 April 1982 and arrived at Stanley airfield, over 3,000 nautical miles away, early in the morning of 1 May 1982 and dropped 21 1,000-pound bombs with one bomb causing severe damage to the runway. The RAF carried out seven Black Buck m