New Merlin Sqn

[Regie Mental]

RAF website announces the worst kept secret at Benson, namely that 78 Sqn is to become the second RAF Merlin squadron. See here:

http://www.raf.mod.uk/news/index.cfm?storyid=66376AFA-1143-EC82-2EE7302FC703FDEF

Presumably the SKs in FI will now become a flight of either 22 or 202?

[airborne_artist]

First broken on here about 28 hours ago:

http://www.pprune.org/forums/showthread.php?t=270123&page=3

[South Bound]

Presumably the Sea Kings will resort to 1564 Flt, as they were before 78 Sqn IIRC