Big increase in military flights

Looking tonight on ADSB I see a small jet an Aero L159 Albatross with registration number G-DKND. It is currently on the move over the North Sea towards Newcastle. It looks like a military plane, but not in the RAF inventory. It also has a civilian registration.
Is it some rich mans plaything or indirectly connected to the Air Force? Are we now sub contracting our defence?.

Looking tonight on ADSB I see a small jet an Aero L159 Albatross with registration number G-DKND. It is currently on the move over the North Sea towards Newcastle. It looks like a military plane, but not in the RAF inventory. It also has a civilian registration.
Is it some rich mans plaything or indirectly connected to the Air Force? Are we now sub contracting our defence?.

https://www.raf.mod.uk/news/articles/royal-air-force-fighter-pilots-receive-exciting-new-service/

Busy evening over the North Sea.
Seven Eurofighters, an Albatross and an Airbus flying patterns.

https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=43c6f3

We’ve had EUFIs flying over almost every night this week.

I thought that Czech trainer at the top was one I’d seen up at Bruntingthorpe, but that one’s an L-29 Delphin, as below. I got to sit in the cockpit and go through the startup sequence; all I had to do was flip one final switch and it would have started up! 😁

Anyone got any thoughts as to why there’s a WC-135R flying up and down the Baltic at the moment.

I was under the impression that their origional role was sniffing out Nuclear testing!

Interesting – they’re “atmospheric testing” planes, so either a training run, or someone suspects something fishy has happened nearby….! Windy.com shows the winds are gently blowing from the East, so something Latvia / Lithuania based?

Or Kaliningrad?

Something I haven’t seem before, three stealth bombers sitting at Orly airport near Paris….

https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=3bfdff

Edit, think its actually a bu1lding, sorry!

Second row from the bottom, just right of the square with the circle in it.

I thought they were aerials or transmitters not Stealth bombers?

Those 3? I think they’re beacons/transmitters – possibly being calibrated?

Yep, I clicked it and it came up with the stealth bomber symbol but zooming right in its on teh corner of a building, so  I think you are right. I got a bit excited and carried away….

UAE Air Force C17 cargo plane landed at Manchester earlier, I watched it on a live stream but the camera showed the Viewing Park absolutely rammed with onlookers!

Not sure when it’s scheduled to leave. There’s been a couple of them recently, the live stream commentary said there was another one due at the end of the week but I can’t find any more info.

In case anyone hasn’t been on the socials this week, Solway Aviation Museum have been gifted the very final Blackburn Beverley and are trying to raise 60k to ship it from Humberside to Carlisle airport.

I remember visiting this thing when it was at Beverley Museum of army transport. Bloody massive thing – a block of flats with wings.

A link to the just giving appeal. Other info on faceache etc
https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/dougie-kerr?fbclid=IwAR14eRaTOHYk3DZr50xfPlUxaz7RMJmB2E5AwrX0zczujCRT2bDBKeIAiPA

Just had a couple of  Eurofighters over Manchester Airport. They did a couple of loops East of Stalybridge and have now headed out the the North Sea where there is also an F15.

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Just had a couple of Eurofighters over Manchester Airport. They did a couple of loops East of Stalybridge and have now headed out the the North Sea where there is also an F15.

I live in South Manchester and heard it go over…instantly knew what it was. Escorting a passenger aircraft down to Manchester with lost comms I think.

Saw it as I was outside washing the car.

We’re off to RIAT this year, first time. Camping locally, and we’re booked in for the Friday, then chilling in the field next door watching the displays on the Saturday,

Escorting a passenger aircraft down to Manchester with lost comms I think.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-68206370

There’s at least 6 B52s (3 pairs) flying across to fairford from Norfolk at about 10k feet. They are occasionally tracking and returning from night missions .

Keep an eye out if you’re in the area.

There’s a b52 returning from an operation over Peterborough at 10k feet heading for fairford. Keep an eye out if you’re on their route as there are likely to be some following.

Just going over Warwickshire

Lying on Woolacombe beach earlier watching the stupid amount of US military/presidential planes fly back from France

Three here coming back from France

The red arrows flew over our house this morning in Aberporth. Blink and you missed it!

@pk13 – interesting, G-HHII was flying around on Thursday, it flew out of White Waltham, circled over a couple of small airfields up in the Cotswolds, then did several circuits over Chippenham, a couple quite low over my house, and did a barrel roll! Sadly I didn’t have my phone handy to get a photo!

It sounded great not sure why it was out and about thou.

Kings B’Day flypast today, shame that BBMF wont be joining

F35s tracking on adsb, never seen them tracking before

Just been buzzed by a Douglas Invader.  Appears to have come from Duxford, looped overhead in Oxford then carrying on west.  seems to now be on final approach to Fairford

Two VERY low over the Wallace Monumnet just now….

‘Gunship 1’

https://www.flightradar24.com/GUNSHIP1/37066d78

FREEDOM!

I’ll get my mate to wave next time. 😉

GUNSHIP1. No imagination.

honestly they should go stealthy with PRINCESS99, ALLEGRO15 or FARTBOX40

Unfortunately the military is fairly dull with callsigns.

I’ll get my mate to wave next time. 😉

Whoo, fun job, can you lob a few smoke flares or something over the carpark?

I heard them coming, looked out the window and thought they were putting themselves through the window….at really rather low level. It is Galloway in the late 1990’s since I have seen plane and helicopter that low…

Dog fighting above North Berwick / Eyemouth.

A Typhoon has also just gone over Glasgow.

That’s cool.

Mildenhall have F16s flying at the moment and there are some Canadian f18s about too, as well as all the usual stuff.

Given the amount of US and UK tankers tracking theres a lot up in the air lately.

Lots of jet noise over the last hour here in Northumberland, is it military does anyone know?

You do have two large danger areas off the coast used for ‘high energy manoeuvres’ and you’re in low flying areas for both day and night so highly likely it’s military.

Exercise Cobra Warrior probably:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/military-low-flying-mod-sponsored-air-exercises/mod-sponsored-current-or-planned-exercise-list-30-september-to-6-october-2024

https://www.caa.co.uk/publication/download/22677