Showing over Illinois eastbound as Ascot 400....looks to have departed from Salt Lake City

Departed circa 10:15 local

To USA after gas and go at Keflavik

Biden has just made his first foreign policy speech in which he has “reversed” the withdrawal of some US military forces from Germany, as proposed by Trump!. Be interesting how this plays out with the future of Mildenhall and other US assets in Europe.

Departed 11-30

ZZ175 just airborne from Ramstein

Despite what "Widow Krankie" says,Scotland,(if it ever became independent from the rest of the U.K.),would probably need to both adopt the Euro and display "fiscal stability" in its own right as a country in order to trade/become an EU member....SNP's default position post devolution!! With regard t...

ZJ692 currently showing off Cyprus as RRR9985

Still tracking on Planefinder,approaching Stoke on Trent,fl600

Showing over North Sea off Newcastle,fl600.....now turned towards Hull/The Wash

Not a bad finish,on the Finnish Hawk

As these two aircraft are decades old and would require a lot of modifications to both aircraft and systems etc,would it not be more feasible for the US,(if they did want to rejoin),to use the same model airframes used in production of the P-8 and fit two of those out with the appropriate hardware/s...

Looks as though the Royal Navy will benefit most with new Destroyers/Frigates etc,especially as we now need protection for the "Flat Tops" when on deployment!. MoD still has a £13bn black hole to fill,and apparently much of this is going to have to come from existing resources and capabilities!. Sti...

Having seen a lot of news coverage of Biden over the past week or so,future decision making seems to be a "mixed bag". He is reported to be keen to rebuild bridges with Germany after Trump somewhat called them out for thier defence spending etc! On the other hand, Biden seems to be more sceptical of...

Having spent many a time watching SR-71s at Mildenhall,I cannot recall one ever taking off and going "near vertical". More often than not it was a reasonable climb rate at speed. Assume that the M-B forum member is confusing it with the U-2

Sheikhy, Thanks for your detailed reply! You are probably right that I could be a decade out, or have attributed the wrong aircraft type to the story! Having started working at LHR for BA in 1974 I know that this particular incident was widely known about in and around the airport and reported in th...

I can also remember an Aeroflot TU-104 in the early eighties coming into land on Heathrow's southern runway 09R,initially coming in from the east,over north London,then out to the west before turning base leg back towards LHR. Apparently,they had a "short term radio failure" as they turned base leg ...

17-46030 is a KC-46A

Can I assume that the Herk would be fitted with onboard video of the refuelling process,re aircraft connecting/disconnecting from the hoses??. If so,I assume,(given the fact that an F-35 was involved),that any such video will probably not surface for many a year,if at all. If as speculated the hose ...

Just done a low overshoot at Northolt....looks to be positioning for a 2nd attempt at landing!

Edit...landed on 3rd attempt.....crosswinds!!

Spitire TE311 just done a couple of flypasts