Zaphod 58. I must say, you have provided a wealth of info for this thread. Seriously, good factual stuff. I have seen so many half-truths and
inferences on threads before, you are a breath of fresh air. I can only Thumbs up and star and up-Karma, or whatever, so much.
It's probably several exercises. The Beaufort exercise is from Georgia to North Carolina. This was a test and training flight, and there are probably
a couple more exercises in the area. They have money again.
Zaphod is right - there is no Aurora
Machrihanish is not even close to the longest runway, 8k feet and not great fun to operate from (trust me on that!)
And there's no activity from Machri these days apart from Wind Turbine manufacture and the occasional bit of training for Hercules and C17 crews,
plenty of other bases to come out of ;-)
There are at least 2 deep black platforms operating out of Scotland, one US and one UK (no doubt a couple more) and both capable of leaving a decent
supersonic footprint.
edit on 31-1-2016 by TheBogmonster because: spelling