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Mike J

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  • January 10, 2015 at 3:11 pm in reply to: Duxford Diary (2015) #852491
    Mike J
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    A shame they scrapped the Hermes fin. Muppetry of the highest order!

    January 10, 2015 at 9:25 am in reply to: Mildenhall to close… #852777
    Mike J
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    The former RAF Oakington, a few miles outside Cambridge, is being turned into the new town of Northstowe, with 9,500 homes being built.

    January 9, 2015 at 6:38 pm in reply to: Mildenhall to close… #853093
    Mike J
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    You’re being oversensitive.

    January 9, 2015 at 2:57 pm in reply to: Mildenhall to close… #853250
    Mike J
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    The Canadians are at high state of readiness though, and conducted an exercise this past summer, forward-basing their entire frontline heavy bomber force at RAF Coningsby for 6 weeks in August and September.

    January 9, 2015 at 2:51 pm in reply to: Mildenhall to close… #853258
    Mike J
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    The current plan is to bulldoze the lot, including the dealerships and filling station, leaving just the park-and-ride.

    January 9, 2015 at 2:45 pm in reply to: Mildenhall to close… #853333
    Mike J
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    Don’t forget that Marshall’s already have a plan in place to sell off the land to the north of Newmarket Road (including all the car dealerships and the large manufacturing site) for housing, which will take a decade or more to come to fruition and add 1,300 homes to the area.

    http://www.wingcambridge.co.uk/

    January 9, 2015 at 12:34 pm in reply to: Mildenhall to close… #853472
    Mike J
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    Leave poor Jay alone. I’d be upset too if the US decided to station, at a single overseas base, a force more capable than my own country’s entire front-line fast jet force (which, for Canada, now consists of a grand total of two squadrons of outdated, clapped-out F-18 Hornets). We think we’ve got it bad here, it must be mortifying for the Canadians to see their once-proud RCAF reduced to such a token force. No wonder Jay has become all bitter and twisted. 🙁

    January 9, 2015 at 12:30 am in reply to: Connie Edwards fighters – Now sold. #853602
    Mike J
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    Very, very slowly. For some reason, they don’t seem to be in a particular rush… 😉

    January 8, 2015 at 6:35 pm in reply to: Connie Edwards fighters – Now sold. #853781
    Mike J
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    The Kindsvoter one was for sale in the US for at least 5 years before it was sold to Germany.

    Buchons aren’t exactly a desirable commodity, especially in the US, where all of the airworthy ones, without exception, have been parked up. Planes of Fame, Erickson, Kalamazoo, Cavanuaugh.

    January 8, 2015 at 6:33 pm in reply to: Harriers for sale? #853852
    Mike J
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    He’s not, he’s researching a magazine article, as he says in the opening post.

    January 8, 2015 at 2:25 pm in reply to: Mildenhall to close… #853917
    Mike J
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    48 F-35s to LN, according to the USAF

    http://www.usafe.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123435694

    January 8, 2015 at 1:36 pm in reply to: Connie Edwards fighters – Now sold. #854031
    Mike J
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    The last two Buchons that came onto the open market (CAF’s, now with Richard Lake, and Kindsvoter’s, now in Germany) each took several years to sell. Boschung paid a premium price for theirs, and will be presumably expecting to sell them on at a profit. An interesting business plan.

    January 8, 2015 at 1:12 pm in reply to: Mildenhall to close… #854035
    Mike J
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    Probably 40-ish. A lot less than in the days of 4 F-111 squadrons

    January 8, 2015 at 12:15 pm in reply to: Mildenhall to close… #854053
    Mike J
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    Whilst there will obviously be considerable fallout in the local economy, the locals must be very grateful for the F-35 programme, which now guarantees the futures of both Marham and Lakenheath for a considerable number of years to come.

    January 8, 2015 at 11:13 am in reply to: Mildenhall to close… #854145
    Mike J
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    I imagine that Mildenhall will be retained on a care and maintenance basis by the MOD ?

    I would doubt it, as most of the other ex-USAFE bases closed in the last few years were farmed out to the private sector pretty quickly (Bentwaters, Upper Heyford, Greenham Common, the airfield portion of Alconbury)

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