North Norfolk Coast this evening
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Anyone any idea what’s making all the noise in the skies above the North Norfolk Coaat this evening?
For the past 3 hours there’s been lots (30+) passes of some very loud aircraft. I mean really loud as in waking the kids multiple times. Seen the following on Flight Radar but I’m sure there’s been more than this in the skies.
For the past 3 hours there’s been lots (30+) passes of some very loud aircraft. I mean really loud as in waking the kids multiple times. Seen the following on Flight Radar but I’m sure there’s been more than this in the skies.
I heard the same in Norwich, thought it was thunder to begin with but soon realised it was constant aircraft noise.
I use https://globe.adsbexchange.com/ flight tracker which is good for filtering military/ civilian aircraft but nothing was appearing, so whatever it was did not have it’s transponder on.
I use https://globe.adsbexchange.com/ flight tracker which is good for filtering military/ civilian aircraft but nothing was appearing, so whatever it was did not have it’s transponder on.
Lakenheath have had some night flying
https://www.edp24.co.uk/news/raf-lakenheath-noise-...
But I’m not sure what they do along the coast.
https://www.edp24.co.uk/news/raf-lakenheath-noise-...
But I’m not sure what they do along the coast.
We regularly get both F15's from Lakenheath and Eurofighter Typhoons from Coningsby.
Sometimes they show up on flight tracker, sometimes they don't (they seem to have stopped showing up altogether since the Ukraine conflict kicked off, but I don't know if that's just coincidence). They sometimes do low-level flying at night, over the Wash, which can be impressive - the lights on the aircraft vs. the static lights on the crab pots on the see give a very clear impression of how fast they are flying.
Apart from practice, I actually got to watch a Typhoon intercept and escort a Russian Bear bomber a few years ago too (in daylight, of course).
We also get Ospreys using Sculthorpe and occasionally flying out over the Wash, and I've seen the AWACs-type early warning things (can't remember the precise designation).
Sometimes they show up on flight tracker, sometimes they don't (they seem to have stopped showing up altogether since the Ukraine conflict kicked off, but I don't know if that's just coincidence). They sometimes do low-level flying at night, over the Wash, which can be impressive - the lights on the aircraft vs. the static lights on the crab pots on the see give a very clear impression of how fast they are flying.
Apart from practice, I actually got to watch a Typhoon intercept and escort a Russian Bear bomber a few years ago too (in daylight, of course).
We also get Ospreys using Sculthorpe and occasionally flying out over the Wash, and I've seen the AWACs-type early warning things (can't remember the precise designation).
Equus said:
We regularly get both F15's from Lakenheath and Eurofighter Typhoons from Coningsby.
Apart from practice, I actually got to watch a Typhoon intercept and escort a Russian Bear bomber a few years ago too (in daylight, of course).
From the ground on the Norfolk Coast ? Wow.Apart from practice, I actually got to watch a Typhoon intercept and escort a Russian Bear bomber a few years ago too (in daylight, of course).
Not doubting you at all - but had always assumed Bears probing UK Air Defences got intercepted long before they were in visual range of the UK and certainly Norfolk coast.
Seight_Returns said:
From the ground on the Norfolk Coast ? Wow.
Not doubting you at all - but had always assumed Bears probing UK Air Defences got intercepted long before they were in visual range of the UK and certainly Norfolk coast.
Yep. Obviously the aircraft were at high altitude, but with binoculars there's not much mistaking a Bear!Not doubting you at all - but had always assumed Bears probing UK Air Defences got intercepted long before they were in visual range of the UK and certainly Norfolk coast.
Obviously I've no idea what the back story was - is it possible to play silly buggers by dodging from one nation's airspace to another as you come down the North Sea?
Or maybe the QRA from Coningsby just wasn't very Q that day...
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