Gloria Finis
5th July 2009 was the date of 43(F) Sqn’s disbandment at Leuchars. The ceremony was well run and lunch was excellent and, as I remember it, speeches contained optimistic hopes that the number plate would be resurrected for the third Typhoon Squadron to be based there.
On the fifth anniversary of that disbandment, not only is there no 43, but soon there will be no RAF Leuchars either. Can we add “Honest Politician” to the dictionary of oxymorons, or is it included already?