F-35 decision dooms RAF Leeming
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Perhaps when Leeming closes the RAF can lower the flag and play the last post in order to indicate there final withdrawl from the North of England (that inhospitable area of Empire with it's Burberry clad natives and their strange dialects) 
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There you are, the North is just for flying over and dropping stuff on.
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Makes me wonder - if Scotland ever voted for independence the RAF would find itself in a bit of a pickle, essentially operating a huge amount of its ops on foreign soil. Then there's the Navy and Trident...
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a huge amount of its ops on foreign soil.
Chances are we would want to be shot of Trident anyway, though if the more canny Scottish Tories ever recover enough to happen to form a Scottish Govt, we could continue to operate Trident or lease the base for an exorbitant sum to our NIMBY southern neighbours.
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An Teallach
didn't reckon the SNP to be the warlike sort
That said, the Parti Quebecois have just come round to having an army "when the day comes" so I suppose it's possible.
However, infantry will seem so much more like a job scheme than FJs I suspect a Soviet Republic of Scotland Air Force will look much like, er, the Irish Air Corps - couple of hundred lads, a few trainers and a couple of BJs for the pols...
didn't reckon the SNP to be the warlike sort
That said, the Parti Quebecois have just come round to having an army "when the day comes" so I suppose it's possible. However, infantry will seem so much more like a job scheme than FJs I suspect a Soviet Republic of Scotland Air Force will look much like, er, the Irish Air Corps - couple of hundred lads, a few trainers and a couple of BJs for the pols...
Thought Leeming is where all you SH types are going to go when they close Odiham and Benson?
What's the crew room gossip on the fate of Cottesmore then?
Surely it has had a bit spent on it to cater for JFH?
SH base instead of or as well as Leeming?
Isn't it a bit far south for the newly restructured "join up and see Scotland" RAF?
Surely it has had a bit spent on it to cater for JFH?
SH base instead of or as well as Leeming?
Isn't it a bit far south for the newly restructured "join up and see Scotland" RAF?
