The Victor had good handling and excellent performance, along with favourable slow speed flight characteristics and has been described as an agile aircraft, atypical for a large bomber aircraft; in 1958, a Victor had performed several loops and a barrel roll during practices for a display flight at Farnborough Airshow.
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It served with the Royal Air Force form many years, serving in a variety of roles besides bomber, including as an inflight refuelling tanker during the Falklands War.
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