Increased Air Activity....

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The Flying Barrel
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Increased Air Activity....

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Yesterday and today has seen a marked increase in flying in the Hull area, mainly pairs of F-15's cavorting around dogfighting/chasing each other. Must be 1 or 2 times an hour through the day and into night. Can't recall such intense activity in a long time.

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They're probably having a change of scenery , or the weather's better there than it is in Wales. :lol:
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I've noticed an increase in activity over Birmingham in the past few months, particularly with Chinooks.
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Chinooks are fairly common over Birmingham, at least as far as military movements go. You've got to remember there's now more in the UK since Op Herrick ended.

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Russ wrote:Chinooks are fairly common over Birmingham, at least as far as military movements go. You've got to remember there's now more in the UK since Op Herrick ended.

I also noticed that the increase coincided with the withdrawal of forces from Afghanistan, still nice to hear them as they pass over though :biggrin:
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Glad I'm not the only one to wonder why the daytime skies reverberate to the increased high level sounds of what I assumed to be F-15's passing through their regular corridor overhead Wolverhampton over the last week or so? Chinooks have been more frequent but the high level stuff has been noticeable if late....
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The Eagles have been very busy in the Lichfield for the past couple of months, I think its just a matter of returning to normality again after the sequestartion when flying was virtually non existance.

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