Originally Posted by
airsound
SLXOwft
I guess those were the same two I saw (on FR24) taking off from Fairford. Oddly, FR24 lists them as coming from Kemble, or Cotswold Airport as it now is. You'd think that Fairford, with its 10,000-odd ft runway, might be big enough to be noticed....
airsound
Shh.. they were from South Cerney. Товарищи, Fairford is for airshow only!
On ADS-B Exchange they appeared in Germany, disappeared over Romania, reappeared and eventually made it back whence they really came.
I assume the Russians were warned, it could have turned very wrong if two 52s heading east out of Germany were interpreted as probably hostile.