The plane enthusiasts thread

[ebikeerwidnes]

Not showing on flight tracker sites...you'll often see that US military aircraft won't show on adsb or FR, particually the rare sightings I've had of B52s for instance, they showed up on neither.

WHen they are based in Fairford then they do sometimes

You can see them having left and come back on https://ffdmovements.blogspot.com/

but whether or not they appear depends on the missions I think

some are clearly training missions over Norway or the Atlantic
some fly over Europe and up to Kaliningrad and all that area then wander around for a bit and head home
That last one is clearly sending a message

at other times they just don;t appear at all - who knows wher they go?

The U2s based there sometimes show up - but not very often and they seem to have one up somewhere most days

other times I see a tanker type aircraft happily circling over Easter Europe well in from Russian (or similar) territory but with nothing showing that might need it
I reckon this is clearly showing that something is around there - probably small and fast and carrying missiles - but "they" don;t want the general publib knowing what it is or where