No one likes being woken up before they need to get out of bed, especially before the sun has started to rise. But this is exactly what happened to locals in one West Country town, who were disturbed at 4am.
Two B-1B Lancers based at RAF Fairford took off at the crack of dawn and headed over Lechlade and Faringdon on their way east, reports Gloucestershire Live. The USAF planes have been deployed to the Cotswolds base since last month and on recent missions have been flying over Eastern Europe.
There have been early-morning take-offs before, but this appears to be one of the earliest with one leaving around 4am and the other a short while later. The sunrise departures meant many people started their day a little earlier than planned. One person on a private Facebook group wrote: "Might as well have a cuppa, B1 alarm's gone off."
