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In article <BzGHpy.BEL@brunel.ac.uk> mt90dac@brunel.ac.uk (Del Cotter) writes:


   In article <STEINLY.92Dec16152132@topaz.ucsc.edu> Steinn Sigurdsson writes:
   >In article <BzCzo5.76z.1@cs.cmu.edu> nickh@CS.CMU.EDU (Nick Haines) writes:
   >
   >   Assuming that it's launching from the continental USA. Seems much more
   >   likely to me (given the sightings over the Netherlands as well) that
   >   one of the long-runway US bases in the UK or Germany is `home' to an
   >   Aurora.
   >
   >Nah, not isolated enough, rumour seems to be that the forward
   >base is a US NATO base in Scotland. 

   Yes, Scotland's still in the UK at time of writing...

But I can pretend can't I... ;-)

   (What's a US NATO base?)

Ouch, humiliation, I'll be banned from soc.culture.british,
- if it's any excuse I have vague memory of reading the original
post as "bases in the Netherlands or Germany"...

There is no such thing as a US NATO base, they are all RAF bases
I gather, but in practise some are all US (except maybe for an RAF
liasion) and nominally assigned as such through NATO rather than
a bilateral agreement...

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