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Old 2nd May 2017, 13:25
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Madbob
 
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Wash AAIA

Call me a cynic but I think to call any airspace nowadays an area of intense aerial activity is plane wrong! 30 years ago it was so different but today the numbers are simply not there and it's a joke that the RAF only seems to operate during weekdays and not weekends. When I was at Honington in 1981/2 there were 76 station-based aircraft alone from 237 0CU, TWCU, 9 Sqn, 12 Sqn and 208 Sqn and they were all fast-jets! Now it's closed along with Coltishall, and Wattisham is no longer RAF so two more fast jet sqns have gone from the frontline ORBAT!
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