RAF Chivenor was criminally abandoned to dirt-dwellers (fine chaps though they are - except when wearing pink marigolds and surgical masks...) because:
- It was by far the best RAF station in the UK.
- It was only a few minutes fom Pembrey Range.
- It wasn't in some dreary, god-forsaken Celtic outpost of empire, inhabited by dribbling inbreds who spoke in unintelligible mumbles.
- The locals were overjoyed to see the RAF back again.
- It bordered ample low flying areas, rarely used by other fast jet aircraft.
- It was by far the best RAF station in the UK. Not for nothing was it known as 'Heaven in Devon'.