The Raf Chief and a Very Expensive Flight of Fancy ; Air Marshal Takes Luxury Jet for a 10-Minute Hop Between Closure- Threatened Bases... [Scot Region]
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THE head of the RAF was accused of 'crass insensitivity' yesterday after he used a taxpayer-funded jet to fly only 11 miles between two Scottish air bases facing closure.
Air Chief Marshal Sir Stephen Dalton used a jet for the minutes- long flight from RAF Lossiemouth to RAF Kinloss the day after cuts were announced that will see one base shut down and the other facing an uncertain future.See the full content of this document
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The Raf Chief and a Very Expensive Flight of Fancy ; Air Marshal Takes Luxury Jet for a 10-Minute Hop Between Closure- Threatened Bases... [Scot Region]
The RAF boss was visiting the two bases in Moray to discuss swingeing cuts to the defence budget announced by David Cameron.
Yet rather than travel by car between the two neig...See the full content of this document
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