Nimrod R1 on a rescue
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Oh for Pete's sake! Let's stop reading too much into the repositioning of the one SAR MR2 to Waddo because ISK was likely to be weathered out!
Could it just be that Waddo was the most logical choice - most northerly base used to handling Nimrods, whose weather forecast was suitable for launch? Who are available H24? Who is a ready source of manpower and spares to keep it serviceable?
I do wish people wouldn't grab hold of the slightest event and turn it into a major talking point to fit their sensasionalist theories.
Could it just be that Waddo was the most logical choice - most northerly base used to handling Nimrods, whose weather forecast was suitable for launch? Who are available H24? Who is a ready source of manpower and spares to keep it serviceable?
I do wish people wouldn't grab hold of the slightest event and turn it into a major talking point to fit their sensasionalist theories.
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Well I saw one at Brize.......and went on a VC10 to Kinloss. Maybe it's like wife-swop. Except I'd get the fat one
Edited to add perhaps Desperate Housewives may be a closer analogy
Edited to add perhaps Desperate Housewives may be a closer analogy
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What's that noise? could it be the death knell sounding for Ice Station Kilo?
What complete and utter cr@p !! The SAR Nimrod has been deploying when the weather is forecast to go out of limits since about ....errrr..... 1970. Often from St Mawgan to Kinloss or vice versa. Given the ever-decreasing number of active H24 airfields HMFC now owns, Waddington seems a more than logical choice, without bringing the conspiracy theories into it. Although, thinking about it, we used to deploy to Prestwick. Maybe the RAF are making a takeover bid for HMS Gannet?
And ISK is probably weathered-out on far fewer days a year than places like Linton, Leeming or Valley! And even allowing for weather, it will still get in about three times more operating hours than Akrotiri !
