This move has got nothing to do with money, USA no longer sees UK as a dependable NATO partner.Due, no doubt to UK’s own defence cuts. US power has been moving from U.S. east coast to the west for the past 10 years as they see China and the Pacific as the threat.
Once they are self sufficient for power through fracking and they can tell the Mid East to go hang, I suspect they will leave Europe all together, and that could happen sooner than you think.

At PMQs just now, David Cameron has said that the Chapel “will be saved for future generations”, but not explained how.

Seems to me people need to decide where their taxes go and what the MoD is for. Is the MoD a heritage organisation or a Government department that must ensure the protection of UK and that UK’s service men and women have the right tools when the bullets start firing around? I’d suggest it can’t be both.
Great a Chapel gets saved at tax payers’ expense but young men and women die unnecassarily when the politicians send them out to the next war because we could not afford the right kit. Imaging you are in charge of the Mod budget, now make the decisions…..
Biggin Hill Airport’s proposal is therefore just pants if this is not part of MoD’s selling to a long term sustainable business plan. Someone else jumping on the band wagon for a bit of publicity by the sounds of it then.

So MoD were looking for someone to take it over from 2016 (and never said it would close) and someone is found. This must be the biggest non story of the year and its only Jan 5th.
Perhaps I can go back onto facebook again and not be confronted by this petition and have to read people’s rantings about welfare scroungers, the “Tories” , defence cuts, overpaid Civil Servants and Ministers, immigrants and rich bankers.

I had sent him this clip of the Mynarski Lanc on approach to Blackpool when compared to the more sedate approach taken by the memorial flight Lanc ;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFBcGU9gVPM

Having been lucky enough to have been inside both Lancs I also commented on the stripped out internal nature of VeRA when compared to the almost ‘as was’ layout of Thumper and that the Canadians seem happy to fly almost ad-hoc whereas we fly with precision planning before , during and after every flight .

Dave Reeves has said he will change the title of the video on YouTube, but still has not done so. His comments are potentially liable. It’s short finals by CWHM!

For those who haven’t heard it, here is the brilliant BBC Radio Lincolnshire programme from Boxing Day about the visit of CWHM’s Lancaster to UK last summer. Running time two hours. Interviews with BBMF and CWHM.
Now available on-line.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02dcxpt

For the avoidance of any confusion, the relative of the British missing airman (Evans was a New Zealander) have been told that the evidence suggests that it is their missing relative’s aircraft that has been found. that may be the most they ever know. Better that than forever knowing nothing. It could be a long time before there is evidence beyond resonance doubt.

From today’s Daily Telegraph and Daily Mail.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/norway/11285380/Students-find-lost-British-WW2-bomber-in-Norwegian-fjord.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2868218/British-bomber-sunk-Nazis-raid-battleship-Tirpitz-WW2-Norwegian-fjord-72-years-crashed-bodies-crew-inside.html