JD,
The recent thrust of this thread is not about the rights and wrongs of the MRA4 or the airworthiness of the MR2. Rather it is about the preservation of a piece of Maritime history in the form of the Kinloss Gate Guard.
I have just under 10,000 hours on the aircraft and nearly 30 years of involvement - in spite of the controversy surrounding its latter days, the Nimrod and the crews both air and ground, was a mighty fine capability for any nation to be proud of and that memory should have been preserved at Kinloss.
Regards