Britain and the RAF ready if the balloon goes up.

It seems that Prince William has been in the news again. After the News of the World reported the Prince had landed a Royal Air Force helicopter in girlfriend Kate Middleton’s garden the Ministry of Defense issued a statement which described the incident as a:

Routine training sortie that achieved essential training objectives. Battlefield helicopter crews routinely practice landing in fields and confined spaces away from their airfields as a vital part of their training for operations. These highly honed skills are used daily in conflict zones such as Iraq and Afghanistan.

It was also reported that Prince William flew an RAF Chinook to a stag weekend on the Isle of Wight. Again the RAF insisted it was a legitimate training exercise to teach the prince how to fly over water. I know I will sleep well tonight knowing that the RAF if fully capable of deploying its aircraft to the yards of it’s flight crews girlfriends, boyfriends, husbands and wifes if the balloon goes up. And if things really get bad they can always deploy some special forces to a stag party.