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Thanks KriVa, I appreciate your detailed interesting answer. Reminds me of Luchtzak.be when this type of exchange was the standard. ;) You are perfectly right about the tankers mission profiles. Years ago I was in contact with some crew of the 100ARW at Mildenhall and they said it can be anything fr...

Twelve (12) F-35A from the 34th FS were already operating from Spangdahlem, Germany where they had arrived on 16FEB from Hill AFB, Utah. Some sources report that 6 of them deployed further East yesterday 27FEB, two to each of the following bases : - Ämari, Estonia (where the 4 Belgian F-16 are alrea...

There are unfortunately more important losses in Ukraine at the moment but the loss of the unique An-225 will be long remembered. https://www.aviation24.be/manufacturers/antonov/an-225-mriya/the-antonov-an-225-mriya-destroyed-by-n-fire-in-its-hangar-in-ukraine/ I remember seeing her in Iran some 10 ...

AF117.gif Back to the old days. H.A. Right, when a BRU-Tokyo via Anchorage in the summer was a day flight all along. And you were being served lunch non-stop as it was about noon during the whole flight. :D And wasn't the Sabena crew based in ANC on TDY for one month? memories, memories. H.A.

While FIRs in the West request to remain 200nm clear of UA airspace, it seems the Russians impose to stay 500nm off the easternmost border of Ukraine.

This Pobeda from IST to Moscow spotted on Friday 25FEB.

H.A.

An Air France Triple 7 is flying from Seoul to Vancouver at the moment, with a 4-digit number which, is rarely used on long-haul flights. https://www.flightradar24.com/AFR6700/2af50614 I don't know if it's linked to the fact that the airline no longer wants to fly over Russia and therefore goes thr...

Why would you publish the position of an f35 on fr24 ? I find it so weird Public relations? "Hello, I'm here. And I'm the only one squawking in our flight" ;) F-35 not shy.png I've seen this 13-5067 earlier this morning, supposedly from Bitburg according to FR24 but more probably from Spa...

The more you look the more tankers you see. There is a Royal Netherlands AF MRTT south of Bydgoszcz, with an RAF 3000 ft below, MRTT as well. RNLAF MRTT.png Another RAF MRTT took off from Akrotiri and is now on station near Constanza. A USAF F-16 departed Aviano and had not strangled its parrot befo...

Lots of tankers still on duty close to the western border of Ukraine. Enough to quench the thirst of many fast jets over there. Night Tankers.png NCHO131 (Nacho = KC-10) is returning to Mildenhall, currently over what used to be the no-go limit at the East German border before NATO decided to provid...

Four (4) An-26 of the Ukraine State Emergency Service, flew out and landed at EPBY Bydgoszcz earlier this afternoon.

Reg 54482 - 54483 - 42521 - 42524. The latter is bort 04 blue illustrated below (thanks to Aviationpress.co.uk).

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Why would it be a stealth aircraft? Both ADSBExhange and FR24 use ADS-B data as their source, no radars are used. As such, as soon as an aircraft stops transmitting said data, it will be invisible to either of those services. It will however not be invisible to radars if in range, be they land-base...

I have seen on several occasions today that a Texaco flies over Poland or Romania, in a racetrack pattern at standard FL240/250 but no other aircraft is visible near the tanker, on FR24 or adsbexchange.

What stealth aircraft could be involved?

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Matt wrote: ↑24 Feb 2022, 14:56 Flightradar24 is down.

I suspect it's being DDOS'd by the Russians so we can't see the traffic above Ukraine.

Can someone confirm ?

FR24 was very slow this morning indeed.
Then around noon came this :
Back to normal now.

H.A.

Vic Diesel wrote: ↑24 Feb 2022, 12:25 ...

PS: Shouldn't the topic be re-named into "Russian invasion of Ukraine affecting civilian aviation"?

Well, isn't this only a logical and predictable continuation of the "Ukraine Crisis" ?

I do pity the population suffering from this political game.

H.A.

A USAF Rivet Joint 61-2667 squawked 7700 while returning from mission in the Baltic.

According to FR24, MLAT, they went down swiftly and headed back to Mildenhall.

H.A.

EK61 DXB-HAM made two landing attempts and diverts to ... OSL !

EDDH 181750Z 22027G42KT 9999 -RA FEW035 BKN049 09/03 Q0981 TEMPO 22030G55KT

Several other go arounds but apparently no other diversions at HAM.

H.A.

And OO-SFF took its turn in AMM, flying out of BRU this morning as SN9901.

Long day for the crew it seems.

H.A.

It seems like Olive is going to join Homer in Chania.


Hmmm, I hope Popeye and Marge are not aware of this.


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The USAF sending reinforcement : Rivet Joint on Training 20220217T0830.png ... or taking an opportunity for training. 62-4127 is one of the two TC-135W that are used for crew training for Rivet Joint walks along Russian borders. Normally based at Offutt AFB Nebraska, this bird flew straight from And...

OO-SFC in AMM since 09JAN is now planned to run SN203 on Friday 18FEB according to FR24 and Flightstats.com.
I suppose she will return to BRU tomorrow then.

H.A.