Northern France is closer to the Olympics site than a lot of the UK (especially Yorkshire).
What is the French government going to do to present a bad guys flight starting in a French field or airfield?
Or Belgium? (or even Denmark and Holland)
Some light aircraft (non heli) can carry hours of fuel and fly a radius of action starting in Italy to get to the target, so how is this threat going to be combatted?
Anyway, as already noted, the bad guys wont be asking permission to fly in.
Or as George Orwell put it in a different context "...the bomber will always get through'.
So are the RAF going to take out a low flying target over Central London en route to its target with a air to air missle and cause collateral damage on the streets below? They won't do it in North Africa so why over London?
Another, better, strategy of prevention is needed rather than airspace closures. The eye in the sky from the UK professional flying population will add more to security than keeping on the ground.
IMHO.
h-r
