I fear that this would have so much CGI they’d be as well making it a CGI/cartoon with Cruise voicing himself.

The latest Defence Estates review has it as a core site, and is secure up to 2030.

Estates Review Story

Estates Devolpment Plan Annex B contains Church Fentons information.

Can someone tell me what a stratified sample is?

This is a term I’ve never heard of and as such don’t consider it a fair question.

Oh 17/20

From what I saw of it, the BBC suffered what you might call the usual problem of covering a flypast.

Namely that the director didn’t “time” each aircraft/combination before cutting to the next in the stream. Also a little bit of lacking in spacial (spatial depending on your spelling) awareness of some aircraft appearing to be out of sequence, when in fact they weren’t. Resulting in showing some of the stream out of sequence which threw the on-screen timing off for the next section.

Likewise during the WW1 segment after the flypast, not knowing what exactly was going on, resulted in missing the british aircraft being bounced by the German aircraft.

I’m not intending this to be a Bash at the director, filming flypasts and mock engagements, can’t be easy at the best of times and if it’s not something that’s done regularly, it would be even more difficult.

The one thing that it did do was show how much I missed the days of Raymond Baxter covering such events.

Anybody know what this airfield (12 miles NE of Stanstead) is called?

http://maps.google.com/maps?ie=UTF8&ll=51.970077,0.495071&spn=0.186977,0.689392&t=k&z=11

None of the surrounding places ring any bells.

GoogleEarth identifies it as Wethersfield.

Wiki says this about the former RAF Wethersfield

She’s listed as appearing at East Fortune later this month.
This has become a regular appearence for her.

Its an ECM/IR defensive turret.

I can’t remember the exact designation though I’m sure someone will be along shortly with it.

How would that work, exactly? Haven’t the soldiers sworn an oath to the Queen? What would England have to gain by giving up the Scottish regiment, or any military resources, for that matter?

I’m Scottish but you can be sure that if I was in the armed forces I would not be happy about being handed over to some other country.

To deal with your last paragraph first…Scottish regiments are predominantly recruited by area of Scotland, though I’m sure there are Non-scots serving in the Scottish regiments. As such their allegaince would switch from the UK to Scotland, and for most that wouldn’t be a problem.
There would be the option I’m sure for those who wished to transfer to a Non-Scottish Regiment, likewise Scots serving outwith Scottish Regiments to become part of a Scottish force.
Similarly Scots in the Navy and RAF would have the option of transfering to a Scots naval or Air force by whatever names they may ultimately end up with.

From the first paragraph, that England would gain at all is arguable in some camps. Indeed it’s a real possibility that Scottish independance would actually cost the English (and those from Wales and Northern Ireland assuming that a new union is formed) tax payer quite a bit, not least the cost of having to establish a new Nuclear Submarine base since Scotland by SNP policy would be have no Nuclear weapons.
Westminster would also face the possible costs of replacing if it felt it was required, the equipment that had been negociated as belonging to Scotland (by percentage of Scots tax payers money).
This could include a number of any type of aircraft currently or ordered in high numbers, likewise proportionate numbers of Naval ships.
But as I said above this would be open to negociation since a percentage of a CVF (to bring this back somewhere near topic) would be of no use to Scotland and a CVF minus Scotland’s share wouldn’t float very well.