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Comments by "Orbital_Inclination" (@Orbital_Inclination) on "RAF Leeming: Northern England's go-to airbase crucial to UK defence" video.
Luckily things have indeed changed in the last 50 years. The Haddon-Cave inquiry is a good indicator that things were not exactly better in the old days
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2 of 6 on that particular Leeming course. RAF Valley hawk courses are predominantly filled with UK trainees. Nothing to do with desperation, just using available resources efficiently.
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Times change, better to get over it than worry too hard about what a station commander decides to call their base
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@EvoraGT430 RAF advanced fast jet training is split between Valley and Leeming, albeit not an equal split. Leeming's RAF pilot output is still crucial, as are the programmes in Italy, the US and others that also produce our fast jet pilots
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We realised that there are more important things than worrying about hair styles, like air safety for example.
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@chrishowells4182 Or a good indicator that some people just refuse to move with the times. Airbase or station both work perfectly fine to convey meaning here.
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These are brand new hawks
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Some choose to learn some conversational phrases, but the Qatari standard of English is way higher than our standard of Arabic
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Every one Qatari student trained, pays for a few RAF students. Same with them funding the upgrade developments on things like Typhoon.
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