Prestwick

Uh, on this date, 1869, Old Tom Morris...

When did he become old? Like, at what point did they go, "Man, you're old, Tom Morris"? He scored the first hole in one, first recorded hole in one at Prestwick's eighth hole in Scotland.

Old Tom Morris.

Yes, yes, Ray.

The UK has two air traffic control centers.

One is at Swanick, near Southampton, the other one is at Prestwick in Ayrshire.

They divide up the airspace between them, so it leads people like myself in trying to inform the public, scratching around to gather whatever information that we can to say, "This is where the failure is, and this is what you can expect."

But clearly it has been a, a significant failure.

The air traffic control center is, it is no longer the darkened room of the 1970s, 1980s.

We work in modern, bright daylight rooms.

In, in, in the case of the Prestwick Center, which is the most modern building that NATS has, it is calm, it is quiet.

If you walk around the, the air traffic control center, you will see people working, you will hear them talking.

In formation over the North Atlantic, part of Operation Bolero, the massive push to get American airpower across the ocean before the window closed.

The plan was to fly from Presque Isle, Maine, to Prestwick, Scotland, stage through Greenland and Iceland, and hand those aircraft to the Eighth Air Force in England, where they were desperately needed.

The weather had other intentions.

A solid front of clouds and ice shoved the formation off course.

If something's wrong or they don't send it to you, you have to call them and talk to them, and they'll still give you the clearance to go overseas.

But so the aircraft established two-way contact with Shamrock Oceanic Control in Prestwick, Scotland.

This is totally normal.

And he transmits a very basic – this is from the CVR from the black boxes.

Right.

In this case, HM Coast Guard deployed aircraft from bases in Prestwick and Carlisle.

Oh, wow.

Yeah.

If they deny us again, only then do we force an independence referendum, the voluntary union being shown to be a mirage.

Sandy Reid, Prestwick.

Nuclear power, no need to fear drought.

Nye Holmes, Letters August 18, tells us that two nuclear reactors in Romania have been closed due to low river levels and asks, given the drought in England, which of its rivers would do the job.

It's just like an oasis of golf.

I find between Prestwick Town, St. Andrews town, and North Berwick town, whenever I'm in one of them, I always go, "God, this is so much better than the other two.

Like, I could live here in a heartbeat." And then as soon as I go to the next one, I was like, "I could live here.

Like, I could...

"Hi, all.

Thought this feedback was worth sharow- sharing following a recent AOG rescue mission from Prestwick, Scotland to Melbourne, Australia." And this is courtesy of Ayrshire Daily News? How you, how would you-

Air- Ayrshire.

Ayrshire

Mm-hmm

... for Qantas.

This is a hugely long Boeing flight from Prestwick to Melbourne.

Oh, I see.