JW411:
Last time I went to Carlisle I was moving BNFL loads to Dounreay. Do these flights still happen?
Was that in DanAir 748s? Scary stuff! No radar cover, uncontrolled airspace chock full of mad Buccaneer pilots flying at anything from 100 to 10,000 feet and speaking to no-one, nothing but an NDB (no DME) approach, and only an 1100m runway with a 1.6% downhill slope in the prevailing 22 direction. Oh and 625ft agl radio masts at about 1.5nm final. MDH must have been something ridiculous. And all of this with what - spent nuclear fuel rods? - on board. I doff my hat to you for that sort of flying - I'm sure it wouldn't be allowed these days.
NS