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So I just found out the "Mach Loop" Is actually in Wales! I will hopefully make a trip to go see it!
Also to answer your question, the US has had air bases in the UK since 1942.
RAF Lakenheath is manned exclusively by USAF personnel despite it being an RAF base.
Pretty sure he has a vid on what to expect and did and donts for visiting the Mach loop .. with a watch if you do want to go
I live north of New Orleans in St. Tammany Parish. There are 2 F-15 pilots that live in my area and they will occasionally do fly overs. I know one of the mechanic team leads and do patches for them occasionally. That is why I say if you come out to New Orleans I'll take you around.
Mach Loop is one of the few high speed low level terrain maneuvering flight training areas in NATO. There is also a place in the US out west as well. Both are well known to aviation enthusiasts, and military units know there are spectators.
The plane with the Hi Mom sign was a US Navy F-18 (possibly a D model, or it could be an F or G model. Would have needed to see more of the aircraft to know.) I have also scene a sign held up by a back seater saying, “I am flying with stupid”.
The Mach Loop itself is used by other countries besides the US and the UK.
The propeller aircraft was either a trainer aircraft or a new light ground attack aircraft for low intensity operations. The US has some, however the markings on that plane looked more like either France or UK.
The one small odd jet that we didn’t get a good look at was probably a jet trainer aircraft.
Finally yes, they (the photographers) are able to tune into the range frequencies to monitor when the aircraft are coming. C-130’s will run it sometimes, and usually there is a guy sitting on the back ramp. Before going, I would try to get in contact with that unique community to see if they have a schedule for when planes will be up. Sometimes it will most likely be short notice.
Had to double check before writing this, however C-17’s (heavy lift cargo jets) have also run the Mach Loop. Flying a C-17 through there would be like flying a 747 jetliner.
I am active-duty US Air Force and was stationed at RAF Lakenheath from 2013-2016. These F-15s and F-35s are stationed there. The Mach Loop is part of the training for the pilots.
The Mach Loop is a low level structure in Wales, used by the RAF and USAF which are based here in the UK.
Seeing the aircraft is an awesome experience, once you’ve done it once and you’re lucky enough to see anything going through you’d want to experience it again and again.
Your son would love it, I’ve just put a video up on my TH-cam channel from my last trip there with my 6, 9 and 10 year old children, who video and take photos themselves of the aircraft. That trip was awesome we had 20 passes from F15s.
It’s well worth a watch even just to watch the images the 2 oldest took of them, one word Awesome.
Amazing! We just spent the weekend in Wales (just near Conway) and think we want to move there. So going to the Mach loop with the kiddos will be more and more likely haha.
Awesome, if i lived close to the area I think i'd struggle to work as i'd want to be up there all the time, even just to enjoy the stunning scenery the Snowdonia National Park as to offer.
One of the coolest pictures I've seen from the mach loop was a c-130 with the ramp open and the crew sitting on it holding up ✌🤙🤟. They definitely know there's photographers out there 😄
They usually fly through Mach Loop as part of standard training. They do it all the time. You need to get there early if you go because you can never park. The smaller, black jet aircraft is a Hawk and is used for training and by the Red Arrows. The prop plane is a Texan T1 and is used for flight training. The F-15s and F-35s are from RAF Lakenheath which is a US base in the UK. There's normally a lot of Typhoons, which are always impressive to watch. They're often in the Lake District too.
The prop plane is the Beechcraft Texan T MK1 trainer. first flight was in 1998. The mach loop is not an airshow. It's a normal training site
I don't know why I thought it was a P-39
I thought it was a Texan also. Turboprops like them are used a lot for training before pilots are assigned the aircraft they'll be flying. I am by no means an expert at anything.
Yeah it's whatever they call the straight tail bonanza they stuffed a pt6 into
According to the RAF website it's a Texan II not the Mk1
Super Tucano
The US has F-15E and F-35A squadrons stationed in the UK. That is why they are there.
RAF Lakenheath, if I'm not mistaken. Ted Coningsby's channel covers Lakenheath, mostly.
@@Longhauler85 Yes it's Lakenheath, I was stationed there from 1998 to 2003.
Absolutely, F-15E Strike Eagles and F-35A Lightning II's . . .
I think Dafydd has a semi-permanent camp on the Mach Loop. His footage is legendary.
Every time I hear my hometown Yuma mentioned, my heart skips a beat because someone acknowledges us :).
(despite having a population of 98K).
In 1984 I was an MP in Germany. We had a unit outing taking a cruise on the Rhein River. A bunch of us got off the boat and hiked up to a castle that overlooked the river. All of a sudden 2 German Air Force Tornadoes, that were flying "NOE" (nap of the earth) down the Rhein River valley went screaming past us. We were looking DOWN on them. Ya dont get to look DOWN on a fighter jet very often. Unfortunately it was 1984 and was WAY before cell phones. We had cameras but it happened so fast no one got a picture.
That must have been a crazy experience!
Desert Shield in the Saudi Arabian desert I had a RAF Tornado bounce my tank .. so quick you only had time to go "loook!!!! ..." and it screamed overhead at 100ft
@@JakeM794 germany in 90 flying NOE along the rhein river in an AH1F in the front seat.... two tornadoes cruised past a couple hundred feet above us...unreal experience. i was a crewchief getting a joyride : )
Sembach AB Germany…July ‘82 - July ‘84…absolutely loved it !!!
@@eTraxxI remember watching the fighter pilot podcast (Highly recommend, it's not just "Fighter" pilots; they interview attack pilots (A-4, A-6 "Intruders", A-7's, A-10's), Bomber crewmen (B-52's, B-1's), foreign pilots, etc.); and they were interviewing either an F-111 crew (I think they were armed with bombs, so probably an F-111) or "Maybe" an EF-111 EWS meant to jam snd spoof Iraqi SAMs and Radars; regardless, they were flying a standard interdiction envelope i.e. "Terrain Following Radar, low as shit and fast as possible" in Iraq just like Tornados as the 111 is kinda like the Tornados granddaddy but can carry a shit ton more bombs, it's got 2 afterburning engines, variable-geometry wings (i.e. "Swing Wings") but it's so damn old the wing sweep is "manually controlled only"😂.
Anyways they're boomin' and zoomin', as close as possible to the ground to avoid Iraqi air defense when all of a sudden there's a BRIGHT ass light above them lighting up the cockpit and they freak out like "WTF IS THAT?". Well they zoomed past, and realized it was a trucks headlights that was driving on the road/highway/whatever... ABOVE THEM😂. THATS HOW "Low and Terrain Following" they were to the ground. Then joked about how badly the driver must've shit himself when it's the middle of the night and within a few dozen feet a sonic boom and afterburner roar must've came out of nowhere to him. IIRC they were so close that not only was the truck ABOVE them, but they could make out the drivers face.
They also talked about the F-111 being so analog there was a switch and circuit breaker for damn near every function of the plane and crews would sometimes put straws and shit on the harder to reach switches to make them easier to reach which eventually was a little "Overused"; so they're fast n' low over Iraq on a different sortie/mission and out of nowhere there's a MASSIVE bright ass explosion right next to them, and they're freaking out "Is there a fighter on our ass? Was that a SAM? Etc, etc..." And the pilot just happened to look at the side of the HUD ands like "Huh, our countermeasure stores are down...(i.e. the counter for the amount remaining is less than earlier)". Turns out while configuring the computers and aircraft for their attack run and flying low enough to be "surfing the trees" if there were any in the desert, the WSO/RIO/Back-Seater accidently bumped one of those "Extensions" with his leg or something and popped off a salvo of flares directly into the desert around & beneath them effectively flashbanging and scaring the shit out of themselves 😂. Especially with how sand effectively "Reflects" light at night making those flares seem even brighter than they already are.
The 1st jet you asked what it was is a Hawk T2, the second one with the prop was a Texan T1, both are training aircraft.
The F15's are based at Lakenheath.
My initial thought was a PC21 I always struggle with them two
@@CTTechGaming They are very similar, at a glance its very easy to mistake them, both are great aircraft tough.
@@CTTechGaming the PC-21 does not have the crank in the planform nor nor the change in dihedral at that location. The Beech T-6 was initially based on the old Pilatus PC-9 with some substantial changes, but the resemblance is there.
I think this is the fella that caught the Nighthawks doing a loop in the U.S. Absolutely EPIC shots
Yes, take your boy for a show. I’m sure he’ll love it. You can’t pass it up. Free tickets and a day with dad! Memories you can’t replace.
Lived in South Florida and used to see things like the Warthog doing crazy things just barely above the treetops way before they were a thing. Remember when they went public. Same in Arizona where they trained pilots, and the jets ran through the valleys. My dad flew Corsairs from aircraft carriers in WW2 so always loved planes.
Thank you for doing a video on this. I probably never would have found the channel on my own. I agree this is some of the best footage I've ever seen of military aircraft. I envy you being close enough to this to go see it in person. Hope you and your boy have a great time when you go!
Noise cancelling ear protection is a must. My neice lived on a US Air Force base and during training exercises you can see pictures of my little great neice out playing in the yard wirh noise cancelling headphones on...They are a must.
Absolutely love shots from the Mach Loop!
I've been to the mach loop once and when I went up there we set and 30 minutes later a 4 ship of US F-15E came through, I never felt so lucky to see them come through on my first time up there such an unreal experience.
I came from Australiafor 2 days at The Loop in 2018....Bucket List stuff.
I've watched Mach loop vids for yrs, & yes, this guy is one of the big ones. Cool to see, ay??!!!
See the LN painted on the tails of all those F-15s and F-35s? That tells you where they are stationed, and LN means Lakenheath. These jets are part of the USAF 493rd and 495th fighter squadrons that are permanently stationed at RAF Lakenheath.
This why I love scrolling the comments on channels like this.
Some of ya'll have the most randomly informative responses, and I appreciate all the fun facts I learn from commenters like yourself.
Ted Coningsby's channel covers RAF Lakenheath. Lakenheath has a viewing area right by the runway where people can park and watch the aircraft take off and land.
Those shots would make some cool posters, especially the hi mom pic 👍
USAF personnel and assets have been based alongside the RAF for decades. See the LN on the vertical stabilizers of those F-15s? That means RAF Lakenheath.
Lots of NATO countries fly through the Mach Loop.
Ok, lemme clear a few things up from the video, it may have already been said but the comment section was TL:DR. The Mach Loop is a training area used by NATO to conduct low level ingress/egress training for pilots. They fly that route a lot for routine training sorties, and pretty much everything (including C130s and C17s) use it. In terms of those Strike Eagles, they're stationed at RAF Lakenheath permanently, as are the F-35s. The US has had jets stationed there since the cold war and it;s a very active base, along with it's partner base RAF Mildenhall. We also have a similar training area here in California, Sidewinder Canyon (That's where the "Hi Mom" F-18 footage came from). They do some pretty spectacular stuff there too, and there's the link to some video footage that's well worth the watch. Hope that clears up the questions if it hasn't already been done. 👍
th-cam.com/video/YFHV-Bcb_ZA/w-d-xo.htmlsi=0-Js-M_ivPZdqCW8
Awesome to see these planes like this. Couple times I was lucky enough to see the EA-6Bs from NAS Whidbey running the Columbia river gorge in the same way. Beyond weird to be looking down at them.
Omg, that would’ve been so cool!
Seeing the jets like this really bring home the might oh those jets!
USAF F-15's are stationed permanently at RAF Lakenheath, England. It hosts two F-15E Strike Eagle squadrons. The wing also hosts two F-35A Lightning II squadrons. They perform air defense of the northern UK along with the RAF.
I've watched Mach Loop stuff for quite a while. Awesome stuff.
I think that prop plane is an a-29 Super Toscano. They are used in the U.S. and around the world for many different uses like trainer, recon, and ground attack.
UK version with a Garrett turboprop.
you should really do more of these mach loop videos they have tons of different aircraft on them!
The prop is a trainer for pilots transitioning to jet turbine, its a Swiss Palitus PC-9 the Irish air corp use as a front line defense. The smaller jet after the F-15's is more than likely a Hawker Trainer. The valley is Wales is a training ground for low lever flying.
You'll definitely have to binge on a few of those videos, it's pretty impressive to see a C-130 turned on its side as well.
The jet that says "Hi Mom" has two Lieutenant Commanders in it
Good catch. It was the F-18.
The F-18 "Hi Mom" shot was at Star Wars Canyon in Death Valley I believe
They are flying through "The Mach Loop" which is a series of valleys in the United Kingdom in west-central Wales.
Planes shown: (Non specific order)
F-15
Hawk T-2
T-6 Texan II (Prop plane currently used as a trainer in the UK among other places)
F-35
I can't believe you what the Mach Loop is. I live in the US and I know what it is. The planes normally pass thru at 500 mph at 500 ft. It is badass to watch. I would love to be there in person, maybe someday.
Closest I ever got to a military aircraft in action was when I was working downtown Houston and for some reason an AH-64 Apache came roaring it’s way past the tower I was working in, just about head height with us. That was pretty sweet
One video of the “Mach loop” was so close and cleat that the photographer was identifying the squadron and other identification of the crew.
I think the propeller driven plane is the US new ground attack plane. They were testing several different types for close air support. One was called the Super Tucson.
Years ago my father was training in England and did the Mach Loop in a F-16.
The first F-35 was waving his wings at the people!
If you take your son, it'd be smart to bring earplugs or some form of hearing protection. Those Pratt and Whitney F-100 and F-135 engines don't mess around volume-wise lol. You can feel the rumbles in your chest. Its really an amazing feeling
The “Hi Mom” shot was of a US Navy FA-18 flying through “Star Wars Canyon” into Death Valley in the Nevada desert. They did the same flying as in the “Mach Loop” up until a Navy pilot planted himself into the canyon wall. Most of that activity has been stopped. This photographer was there also.
I live in San Francisco for 10 years in a hill area called Pacific Heights, in a 12 story apartment building. Every year we had Fleet Week where the Blue Angels would do city low level flyovers. it was amazing when they would hug the valley ground between Pacific Heights and Telegraph Hill, lower than our rooftop viewing.
That pilot is absolutely American with saying “Hi mom” I was dying
The USAF is stationed jointly at RAF Lakenheath. In the UK.
Sidenote: I went to Japan last Oct and saw F-15s and F-35s flying sorties all day. They fly over Kadena AB in Okinawa all day.
My daughter is in the Air Force and works on maintaining the F-15 engines.
Years ago I was desert camping near Death Valley. Fighter jets flew up and down this valley, lower then the surrounding mountains. One day I stopped on the road and got out to watch them, they noticed me, and my flag. Flew right over my head, sounded like they where ripping the sky open, these low passes, wing wagging and all. Just amazing hardware.
The Mach Loop is a bucket list thing for me.
I do plan on trying to go there before I can't make the trip to the top of the hill.
There is a TH-cam video out there that gives advice on how to get there and enjoy the visit.
I used to teach and fly out of Boeing field in Seattle. The blue angels park there when they're in the area for a show, which there are a couple of a year. Every year there would be one or two times where I'd be pulling up to the gate, ask myself "why are there so many people here right now? " Just as the blue angels go ripping 50 feet above the fence
I always felt lucky to grow up at Holloman Air Force base in New Mexico. There were F-15s stationed there and I got to see those planes flying everyday as a kid.
I was stationed at RAF Mildenhall and lived near Brandon, near the airfield at Lakenheath, and I would always see what we referred to as "Bird Watchers" just outside the fenced areas taking shots of the fighters, Ospreys and heavy aircraft that are always coming and going. So yeah, these people probably do this all the time and have perfected how to catch these shots.
The “Hi Mom” is real. Dafydd reached out to the pilot and sent a print to his mom
Of course your son loves fighter jets. They are freaking awesome!
Spent 4 years at RAF Lakenheath. Love my F-15's
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How do you not know that the US has bases in the UK? I was stationed in Wales over 30yrs ago. RAF Lakenheath has been a US base for over half a century, on the East side of your island nation. That LN marker on the tail signifies Lakenheath as their home base.
The Mach Loop is used by the US and Royal Air Forces. They fly the loop quite often. The prop driven aircraft look like a Tucano which is a turbo prop, used as a trainer. The other small aircraft look like a T38 or F5
THE VULCAN BOMBER IS MY FAV AT AIRSHOWS TRUELY CHILLING
My dad used to fly through the mach loop. 🔥
We have squadrons stationed in the UK
My classmate growing up Dad was/is a fighter jet pilot and he came to talk to us on career day at school...it was awesome. I was on Flag duty so I was in charge of raising and lowering the US Flag every day. My school had two Marines come and show us properly how to raise and lower the Flag and fold it correctly.
They are able to get such sharp and clear still images because they are digital cameras shooting at like 1/1000th sec exposure time or shorter, and taking many many pictures as fast as it can. For every clear sharp photo they get probably 100 or more not-so-good photos.
The Mach Loop and Goodwood Festival of Speed are my come to the UK bucket list!
Mach Loop is used for low level mountain flight training. Sneaking in under radar and behind the mountains so not to be detected. They also do this in the US at Crowley Point (Star Wars Canyon).
According to the interwebs they suspended below the rim flights in Star Wars canyon after a crash in 2019 and now have to stay at least 1000ft above the rim of the canyon, but do still have training flights there.
The Mach Loop is in Wales, and the tail lettering LN means it"s out of Lakenheath....low level flying exercises...hills and valleys.
Wales
Mach Loop is a bucket list trip for me. Would love to see your take on this site
There is a test range in the Utah desert, south west of Salt Lake City. The airfields in Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada and California all use it. It’s very easy for them to fly and train from these bases
Im so surprized that you... a Royal Marine.. havent heard of the "Mach Loop" where Military Aircraft from Several Nations go to Train.. { Information taken from and Credited to Wikipedia...} The Mach Loop (also known as the Machynlleth Loop, Welsh: Dolen Mach) is a series of valleys in the United Kingdom in west-central Wales, notable for their use as low-level training areas for fast aircraft. The system of valleys lies 13 km (8 mi) east of Barmouth between the towns of Dolgellau to the north and Machynlleth to the south, from the latter of which it takes its name. The training area is part of the United Kingdom Low Flying System and lies within Low Flying Area 7 (LFA7), which covers all of Wales.
Its a Texan trainer from RAF Valley. At 6:08 They use these before letting the guys and girls out in the Hawks which also fly out from RAF Valley
The prop plane is a Beechcraft Texan T1, a current training aircraft for the RAF.
The desktop background on my iMac is a screenshot from one of these vids of an F-15. It's a bucket list item of mine to visit the Mach Loop one day. The footage at the end that you said looks like Colorado I believe is Star Wars Canyon here in the States. Same idea as the Mach Loop....it's a training route.
F 15 designed in the end of the 60 s .upgrade after upgrade . and still flying ,cool video , hello from amsterdam
I work near Hill AFB in Utah. See and hear these guys flying on the regular.
In the eighties the navy fighters would flight through the valleys below where we would camp around the our Scout camp in Washington State. We were told the game was to sneak up as close to the Navel air station without being picked up on radar. I something similar when I was in Utah in March.
The prop aircraft you were wondering about is a T-6A Texan, the primary trainer for the US Navy and Air Force, also used for various purposes by other countries.
The Little one was a BAE Hawk, The Small prop one is a Harvard II in that the RCAF used as a Trainer
They sound just like that only much louder. I live 3 blocks from one of our Air Force base, They all have different sounds. We are in the flight path. You just get used to it and infact notice change to their flying schedule. Anytime they fly at night, in the AM, we have a military presence somewhere.
All my years in the Air Force and I never get tired of seeing these USAF birds performing.
I'm amazed , your in for some treats coming soon
I was army but love the planes too. Favorite is C130 it's just so good at everything. As I've gotten older as seen a few Carriers in person I must admit though. Those are so massive and impressive. Power projection they look so damn menacing. It's like the death star rolling up on you.
this is the Mach Loop, its in north wales and planes from allover europe train and practice there low level flying. its a fair walk from the nearest car park and there are some hills to climb.
Low level training area. US based f15s and 35s use it too. RAF mildenhall is a US operated base.
The small black jet is an RAF hawk and prop plane is a tucano. If they're black then they're training aircraft. Start on the prop, move up to the hawk jet to then go into fast jets like the typhoon and f35. Hope that helps
Sorry is not a tucano anymore...
I've seen quite a few of his videos, he gets all kinds of amazing pictures. some of his videos have a flickr account linked with his photo captures.
Check out Tiny Guns 3 by Corridor!
The Slow Mo Guys get great pictures of bullets. Ballistic High-Speed does as well. But, those are beautiful pictures of the airplanes.
There's an airshow right now The Farnborough International, Hampshire. It would explain why you're getting spammed with these atm.
The US flys out of one of the UK's bases. They fly daily.
TED Coningsby has a YT channel and website that films these almost daily.
The Jedi transition is the sister to the UK Mach Loop. It's near Death Valley, California, USA
Yeah you gotta take your son.
I grew up on ranch right next to a USAF base. So many weekends were spent at the creek on fence line watching the free show and fishing.
Those smaller planes are trainers, these are training flights so it’s not a guarantee that they would be out there every day, people just go up and hope to see them.
I've been watching these videos for years. It used to be F15s and F16s and now and then F105s.
OOOHHH yeah a live stream at Mach Loop!
The American equivalent is Rainbow Canyon out near Death Valley. Then, it was always fun to drive through Nellis Training Area and watch the F-15's float around each other. Yes, FLOAT. Using their raw engine power to keep themselves aloft as they "danced" around each other at what one would think was impossibly low speeds for a fighter jet. Even better when they popped off flares when doing this.
BAE Hawk T1 trainer of the Royal Air Force was one of the jets you asked about I believe.
The prop plane is a Beechcraft Texan T1. It’s used by the RAF as a beginner jet trainer. It uses a turbine engine, so it gets them use to the performance characteristics of that type of power plant, all while keeping them sub-sonic and relatively safe. They started using it in 2019 based on what I could find real quick.
What you saw was not an air show. The way I understand it, it’s used to mimic low level bomb runs. We, the USA, run that with the RAF a lot to help the men learn to work together. What surprised me is the still images I saw on the video show the F-15’s were armed! Not heavy, but at least a single missile on each. I couldn’t tell for sure if it was an AIM 9 or an AIM 120. Which are heat seeking and radar guided respectively. They had two external fuel tanks, so they were going to be up for a while. I wonder if the weapons came after what all went down on 9-11. During that day some fighter jets got redirected to targets that didn’t respond fast enough to the calls to land now. They went knowing they were not armed at all. They went knowing they have to ram the commercial aircraft with their own and potentially die doing so. They were prepared to do whatever they had to do to protect people on the ground. We are lucky to have men and women like that.
I did some audio/video/CCTV/security installs on a guys house that lived just outside of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, which I live right by. His cabin was up on a huge hill borderline mountain and had a great view. We got the surprise of our lives one day while running wire. We kept hearing jets off in the distance and it got louder and louder. Then the windows started to shake and we run outside. A flight of four F-16’s flew BELOW us! They were down in the valley and running the length of it and only pulled out at the end of it. They went straight vertical, flipped over, rolled back around, dove back into the valley and ran it back out the way they came. Talking to the homeowner, he’s seen F-16’s, F-15’s, A-10’s, F/A-18’s and F-22’s. He said they do it pretty often around once every 3 months but not like clockwork.
I just love looking at those pictures, and reading the pilot's callsigns on the side of the jets. The RIO that held up the 'hi mom' sign's callsign was "skirts." And the Pilot's callsign was "McD"
ITS AMAZING TO ME HOW MANY BRITS DONT KNOW JACK-SHIT ABOUT MACH-LOOP!
Totally agree - and THIS guy was a Royal!!!!!
Turboprop is a trainer. US Air Force operates out of Lakenheath alongside the Brits.
In the US there is a similar type of spot where low level training happens if you search Jedi Transition Death valley you will find lots of cool videos. A video going there will be awesome! I'm sure your son will love it. The Mach Loop is on my must see list if I ever make it over to england.
The prop plane and jet aircraft you didn't recognize were trainer aircraft. I believe the Texan T1 and Hawk T2.
I'm still waiting for that marsoc video😂
My sister is planning a big UK trip for next year and I've somehow gotta sneak the Mach Loop into the itinerary.
I live near Mildenhall and they fly over me all the time.
The black one is the M-346 trainer made by the Italian company Aermacchi. Any other name is what countries that bought them added on. If it's Polish then it's Bielyk (white tailed eagle), Greece calls theirs 'Silver Hawks'. Pilots have to give their aircraft a cool name. There are many variants, with some of them meant for combat and not training.
Boeing's F-15 Demo Team is currently in the UK for a few air shows so the F-15s may have been them.
The US literally had F-15's stationed at RAF Lakenheath in the UK for decades. Recently F-35s were added to the fleet.
You have US Air Force stationed at RAF Lakenheath (Fighters) and RAF Mildenhall (cargo).