Biggus,
That makes perfect sense in terms of a historical explanation of why we had a military SAR force in the first place, thanks for taking the time and trouble to post, it puts the current situation nicely into historical perspective as to why it came about.
Absolutely no sense in it continuing like this though.
On a slightly different point, looking at the retained 10 bases, is it just me or is that a HUGE area between Lossiemouth and Leconfield with no coverage?
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