Prince William got his RAF wings.

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On Apr 14, 4:01*pm, (Steve Firth) wrote:
Denny wrote:
He can share my sky

Do either you or Henriques have a receipt for the sky you each claim to
own?

Squatters rights, I believe they are called.

Actually, in the UK, the are called "purple airways". They close fligh
paths that the royals travel on. Or at least they used to. I haven't seen
one notamed in a while.




Bertie

Hi,

In article ,
Bertie the wrote:

Actually, in the UK, the are called "purple airways". They close fligh
paths that the royals travel on. Or at least they used to. I haven't seen
one notamed in a while.

They still do. I've seen a few during my training.

Oddly there wasn't one for Brize when Harry flew back in.

Andy

Andy Hawkins wrote in
:

Hi,

In article ,
Bertie the wrote:

Actually, in the UK, the are called "purple airways". They close
fligh paths that the royals travel on. Or at least they used to. I
haven't seen one notamed in a while.

They still do. I've seen a few during my training.

Oddly there wasn't one for Brize when Harry flew back in.


Prolly cuz it wasn't a civil operation.


Bertie

Hi,

In article ,
Bertie the wrote:
Andy Hawkins wrote in
:
Oddly there wasn't one for Brize when Harry flew back in.


Prolly cuz it wasn't a civil operation.

Yeah, guess so.

Was most upset I didn't get on telly. I was stood about 50 yards away from
his plane as it taxyed past our flying club aircraft. I had the Sky New
'copter hovering above my head as they covered it.



Andy