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Default The movie "Argo"

On Sun, 25 Aug 2013 06:07:21 -0700 (PDT), "
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Wow, after all that, using 16 aircraft, you managed to actually deliver one payload of 21,000 pounds of bombs. But you're
apparently right, it did set a record at the time. One that has
since been broken by the USA with nonstop roundtrip flights of B2 bombers from Missouri to Iraq and more recently to Libya. At 5500 and 6700 miles one way from the heart of the USA, not some
forward base, those bombing runs far exceeded your
3300 mile journey to the Falklands from the Ascencion Islands base. And each B2 carried twice
the payload of your single Vulcan. So, nice record for the time,
but it's been long surpassed.


Harold likes to make things up.

"The B-2 is capable of all-altitude attack missions up to 50,000 ft,
with a range of more than 6,000 nautical miles unrefuelled and over
10,000 nautical miles with one refueling."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B-2_Spirit