I have just had an email from flightradar24.com & included in the news is information about military activity to be seen in the airspace around Ukraine.
I know from my own observations that the USAF Lakenheath is sending regular flights to circle over Romania, close to the Ukraine boarder.
The article for those interested can be found via the link below.
For those concerned about the information being in the public domain. The military have the option of flying masked, but are choosing to have these aircraft in the open.
There has been extensive air activity here in Norfolk the past few days.Particularly so this morning. We are not so far from Lakenheath and Mildenhall.
I live some distance away from the bases, but within Norfolk. But I can hear the radio traffic of aircraft leaving & returning & have been watching local activity on flightradar24 etc.
It is unusual when they are flying down there daily from Lakenheath to spend a few hours circling & then return home. Some days I have seen one aircraft doing it in the morning & a second in the afternoon. The type of activity we are seeing is not normal, because the situation in that area is not normal.
The aircraft are also using German bases. But Lakenheath has a long history of being involved in this type of activity. The old Lockheed Blackbird aircraft flew out of Lakenheath. As did some bombing missions into Iraq.
We had 2 Osprey VTOL aircraft fly over our village tonight. The noise was deafening and I thought they were going to land on our house! I don’t know much about aircraft but local planespotters recognised them and I googled them and they are very weird looking. cross between plane and helicopter and huge.
There has been an astonishing amount of aircraft over Yorkshire in the last few days! Don’t know where they will have come from as most of our local airfields are defunct.
