Newquay is served by Newquay Cornwall Airport (NQY) , six miles north of the city centre. Direct flights are available from London and most other major cities within the UK, with low-cost airlines offering most of the flights.
The unit cost for one Predator is about $4.5 million, according to DHS estimates. But the costs of operating a UAV can become more than double the costs of operating a manned aircraft, said the Congressional Research Service (CRS) last summer.(See Homeland Security: Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and Border Surveillance.).ased on that figure, keeping one UAV in the air every hour of the year would cost about $28.5 million. Homeland Security Todayâs Mickey McCarter has written the most thorough piece on SBInet that I have seen in the past several years.
This popularity has kept the program going in spite of the setbacks that has plagued it for a decade. The cost has risen to $150Ma copy. And America needs 2500 of these at a cost of 375B plus 40 yrs of maintenance, training and operations. All in all over the projected lifetime of 50 years about $800 M per plane. We are told that the security of the U.S.is at stake. Our terrorist enemies du jour, Al-Qaida, The Taliban or ISIL will be kept at bay with these wonderful aircraft.