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Re: MOD Sell Off

Post by ColintheCaterpillar » Tue May 02, 2017 12:42 pm

tonkatom wrote: Don't know a great deal about wattisham but I'm not convinced that wattisham has anything middle wallop doesn't have.
Other than hardstanding (and a decent length of runway - maybe not relevant for rotary use but looking at the bigger picture) and hangarage perhaps?

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Re: MOD Sell Off

Post by Amp » Tue May 02, 2017 2:30 pm

AN-124s always looks good at Wattisham when the AHs are being moved overseas....

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Re: MOD Sell Off

Post by MRTT » Tue May 02, 2017 4:09 pm

ColintheCaterpillar wrote:
tonkatom wrote: Don't know a great deal about wattisham but I'm not convinced that wattisham has anything middle wallop doesn't have.
Other than hardstanding (and a decent length of runway - maybe not relevant for rotary use but looking at the bigger picture) and hangarage perhaps?
Middle Wallop has several, large hangars.

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Re: MOD Sell Off

Post by ColintheCaterpillar » Tue May 02, 2017 9:39 pm

MRTT wrote:
ColintheCaterpillar wrote:
tonkatom wrote: Don't know a great deal about wattisham but I'm not convinced that wattisham has anything middle wallop doesn't have.
Other than hardstanding (and a decent length of runway - maybe not relevant for rotary use but looking at the bigger picture) and hangarage perhaps?
Middle Wallop has several, large hangars.
It does. Wattisham would appear to have one more, and a HAS site too for dumping and forgetting about things.

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Re: MOD Sell Off

Post by POL » Wed May 03, 2017 7:52 am

page_verify wrote:There's been talk for a while about the AAC moving to Boscombe so that the MoD can close Wattisham, if anything is actually going to make something happen it'll be the SDSR that's coming.

https://www.arrse.co.uk/community/threa ... be.262019/
It's not all of the AAC to Boscombe, just some elements from Wallop, freeing up room to close Wattisham.

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