I doubt that any independant Scotland would be looking towards any major air or naval component it does’t make any sense.

I would think that the SNP are looking along the lines or the Irish millitary. The first thing they would want is the transfer of the Scottish devision to local command to allow the forming of a self defence force with a small naval patrol component for fisheries patrol. Any air component would be again for jurisdiction and fisheries patrol.

The SNP are on record as saying that they would remain in NATO, and as such I suspect that some Air Defence requirement would be retained to sovereignty. Likewise some (maritime?) strike capability.
IIRC there was also mention of maintaining a limited role within a NATO and EU reaction force.

More pressure on the Government to extract their collective digit and put pen to paper.
But as usual it’s versed with the Labour party playing politics with the Navy’s needs … oh and lets throw some blame in the direction of possible constitutional change in Scotland too.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/glasgow_and_west/7468073.stm

Harvard IIB KF183 based at Boscombe Down with the ETPS

Is ETPS really considered to be airforce, as that’s what is asked by the Original poster.

Some bloody big helicopter thing, possibly a Sea King, earlier today over Penicuik, about lunchtime-ish.

Sea King from Prestwick
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/edinburgh_and_east/7463718.stm

isn’t it one of those what are they called…. ecto planes ?- fly/hover 2 feet above water etc??:confused::confused:

What’s left of an ekranoplane would be my guess too, some of those were really strange looking beasts

Anyone know why all the flags down the side of the air intake are reversed?

I thought at first the image had been flipped, but all the other markings are correct.

Slightly late to this, but the British Superbike organisation have something similar on the back of their tickets.
Basically only those authorised photographers or cameramen are allowed to sell their images of the event.

Public display of spectators images on websites (flickr, or your own website) is actually OK, but suggest that they are for sale or put a price next to any of them and BSB will contact you with dire warnings that you are unauthorised seller and are breaching all sorts of copyright and the admission/licencing terms and conditions and with appropriate legal action to follow if the images remain for sale.

Admittedly BSB and airshows are two different animals, given that BSB is within a closed circuit environment, and an airshow can’t by it’s very nature stay within the venue. Additionally is the air above a venue part of the venue? etc.

Just a silly thought, and going in a slight off topic direction….Do Airbus build Boom recepticles?

If the A400M was to have a Boom recepticle then this might encourage the RAF to look at having a Boom fitted to their MRTTs. Having a fleet of 30 odd receivers rather than just the 7 or 8 C17s.

It wouldn’t do any harm to the A400M in terms of competing for C130J or even C17 orders from other Boom users.