11.13 ARMY AIR 552 Gazelle en route from Aldegrove to Barton ( likely fuel stop )

operated by the Garda

" I assume that avoiding France is some historical issue requiring NATO paperwork but avoiding Belgium..............."

France is a member of NATO

Lovely photos - congratulations on 100 years

15.17 ARMY AIR 552 talking to Brize - appears out of Barton - suspect en route Middle Wallop - pinging as Aldegrove Gazelle XZ326

Our armed forces are very emaciated right now after years and years of self decline. I suspect we'd have problems fighting anything more than a few days.

Anything we can spare will be put to good use by Ukraine.

at 10.22 the BBC stated "A Royal Air Force plane carrying President Zelensky has just touched down at Stansted Airport." with a photo of a C-17 touching down ( ZZ178 )

My *guess* would the VIP would be in the C-17 - the Herc bringing the additional support/security/press teams

Plenty of top bods have gone by C-17 into hot sandy places previously.

Could well be - both out of Rzeszow

The Gazelle fleet do more than just their role in Northern Ireland.

Gazelles are frequent visitors to units in my home county of Herefordshire.

I'd suggest that X"H"917 and X"H"843 are in reality Wessex XM917 and XM843 both with AES at L.o.S.

nope - assume in from Aldergrove to Barton for fuel.

ARMY AIR 579 departed Manchester Barton going northwards near Lakes District at 14.11 - pinging as Gazelle ZB693

Grea shots and some top quality machines there.

The Polish SP-SSC is a PZL Kania, an updated development of the Mi-2 - this one was w/o in 1988.

at 22.24 passed to Shannon 135.230

prop jobbies - jet jobbies - bigger than a Hercules - smaller than a Hercules - T tail jobbies - non T tail jobbies - what did you see.

""CNV3056. 164995 C-130T USN landed aldergrove from NSY""

I looked it up

City:    Sigonella, Sicily, Italy
Name: NAS Sigonella
ICAO: LICZ
IATA: NSY

anything below MANPADS ceiling is very vulnerable to troops on the ground regardless of air superiority - take a look at the low level losses in Ukraine. F-16s and others will do much of their ordenance release from above MANPADS. Tanks and AFV flling prey again and again to modern man launched weap...

Excellent images, like them all especially the tanker A400

Discretion - Half the population seem to be watching them on ping screens and even the non pingers are being found and tracked by MLAT plotting enthusiasts ( I suspect this latter activity is a cause of some concern in defence/security circles ). I enjoy listening to my airband and hear many interes...