Night Flights

I must admit, I hadn’t realised that USAF Lakenheath had stopped doing night-flights, considering the way they were flying over the house at half-ten last night.

But apparently they had, and will now be re-starting ‘night flights’ in order to train flight crews with night-vision equipment.

I suppose Winter is a good time for that training, as they can be flying from 6pm through to about 6 or 7am, however I know Hound won’t like it. She’s not keen on the overflights at the best of times, although she’s much better with the F15s from Lakenheath/Mildenhall than she ever was with the Jumbos and airliners from Heathrow when we were in Bracknell. (I don’t know why, although I assume it’s to do with the pitch of the noise – the whine from the airliners used to drive her crackers, whereas the more bass rumble and roar from the fighters seems to be less annoying to her)

Still, all part of the joys of living out in the arse-end of nowhere.