Interestingly, one
of the 8 RAF Tornados deployed at Akrotiri could be regularly
tracked online during its transit from Cyprus to Iraq via Israel, Jordan, accompanied by a Voyager tanker: the example #ZA556 (the only «visible» aircraft in a formation
of at least two planes) can be often spotted on Flightardar24.com as it flies into Israel, then into the Jordanian
airspace before turning its transponder off to enter the Iraqi
airspace.
Ever since Boston University biologist Thomas Kunz founded aeroecology in 2008, it has seen huge gains because
of the growing ability to
track air movement with radar and telemetry, and because
of humans» growing use
of airspace.