Yes - it may be on top of a hill but in 10 years I have been fogged in/out only 4 times
It has two runways for those nasty crosswinds or when the main runway might get flooded or be closed by peace protestors.
It also has enough parking for
100% of it's aircraft all year round with sufficient spare capacity to handle all the air charter and diverted aircraft that a nearby airbase can't cope with.
It has enough hangar space to enable the engineers to rectify the airframes.
It doesn't need to refurbish all its MQ estate, has enough local amenities, including schools, to cater for the service and civilian workforce.
It's close to major road links, SPTA and Wales, closely located to all major user units.
It has enough movers to handle more than 1 inbound AT aircraft every 4 hours whilst still supplying manpower to deploy and assist a nearby airbase because they are short-staffed.
Everyone likes working at Lyneham and the morale is superb considering it has had the death knell sounded on it for the last 3 years.
Still - the
uber-base have promised they can do all this and more on half the budget they asked for!
Can't wait to see where they will squeeze the C130Ks and C130Js, A400Ms, FSTA, VC10s, Tristars, visting/diverted aircraft, air charter, trials units and all the associated personnel and infastructure
