Here's where Lobdell's idea of an 'Uncanny' AF would make sense. Maybe have three books; East Coast Alpha, West Coast Alpha and Central Alpha. Veterans could be spread out amongst the teams and there would be plenty of room for old, unused characters as well as new ones to go instead of into limbo. Of course we'll be lucky to get one book....But I do agree that, for the Flight to be useful not only in the protection racket () but in the general safety department, they'd have to incorporate aspects of their larger supposed archetypes, the Avengers and the X-Men - namely in protection (maybe even using their large character base to form regionalised teams, say an East/West division, so to be able to cover a larger area more quickly - remember, Canada IS the second largest country in landmass! - and if they kept using the Arctic Plodex ship as a main base, it'd even things out, considering the rough location its in)...