Airbus A400 low flying over the Golden Valley

With the current warm days the windows were open and so the noise of this plane flying very low over our house put me on high alert. I correctly guessed immediately that it was another large plane of the same type that I blipped a few weeks ago. 

The Airbus A400 is a refuelling plane for the Royal Air Force, and I think they fly from an RAF airfield in Oxfordshire called Brize Norton, and their training flights include very low passes over our Cotswold hills. I had my camera on my desk but by the time I had switched it on and opened the window wide enough to track the plane it had already flown down towards the Golden Valley. At this point it suddenly banked steeply to fly eastwards along the line of the valley, which I’ve shown as an ‘Extra’, and then within a further mile it banked to the right to head south over Minchinhampton Common.

My main blip is of it continuing only a few hundred feet above the ground even though it looks to be sinking down. I was slightly concerned, but not hearing a big bang I assumed the pilot was in control. 

In former years I have seen massive US Air Force B52 bombers on a very similar flight path, sometimes with cruise missiles hanging below the wings. US Stealth bombers have occasionally paid a low flying visit too.