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Tony Blackman and Garry O’Keefe bring together first-hand accounts from the aircrew and ground crew who operated the Handley Page Victor across four decades of RAF service.
Format: Paperback, 198 pages.
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Victor Boys, by Tony Blackman and Garry O’Keefe, tells the story of the Handley Page Victor through first-hand accounts from its aircrew and ground crew.
The book begins with test pilot Johnny Allam and the aircraft’s development before moving through its Cold War nuclear-bomber role and Blue Steel trials in Australia.
Later chapters cover the Victor’s transformation into an air-to-air refuelling tanker. Its tanker fleet supported the long-range Vulcan Black Buck missions and Nimrod reconnaissance operations during the Falklands War, and the type remained in RAF service until 1993.
Tony Blackman, himself a former Avro chief test pilot who was involved in development of the Victor K2 tanker, places the contributors’ experiences in context.
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| Dimensions | 23.4 × 15.3 cm |
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