"kytelly" wrote in message
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On 21 Feb, 19:43, "Nick Pedley"
wrote:
"Graeme Wall" wrote in message

... As to the story of
evacuating the Royal Family in an emergency there are
two
runways in Central London capable of taking an aircraft of the Queens
Flight
assuming the latter still exists.

Why waste time driving to one of these spots which would need some
preparation when a helicopter based in your back garden can get you
further
away in the same time?
32 (The Royal) Squadron is based at Northolt with BAe 146's and HS125
bizjets while the Royal Household have their own Sikorsky S76 helicopter
to
get them around.
Where did I learn that? The Royal
Website!http://www.royal.gov.uk/output/page2836.asp

Exactly. If a secret entrance ever existed to the Vic line (So in
times of crisis Her Maj could squash onto a service train and zoom
along to the safe havens of Walthamstow or Brixton?) it would have
long ago have been discarded as virtually the whole of her family seem
to be pilots and tooling around in choppers is much more their style.


Hence the Private Eye headline in the days when Phil had a Westland
Whirlwind that was painted bright red.

PE: "Lokk over there! The Duke of Edinburgh has his big red chopper out on
the lawns!".