On Dec. 5th I went again to Grosseto to make take some long exposure shots during night activities (see also my previous post here).
Typhoon MM7287 operating with the RSV landing at sunset:
Take off of a P-180:
Base turn and landing for a 9th Gruppo Eurofighter:
A C-27J on final approach for RWY 03:
The C-27J performing a touch and go:
This last picture deserves a comment: if you look at the top of the image, you’ll notice that the red strobe light blinking underneath the aircraft and reflecting on the fuselage and the wing, generates a series of red dots that recall the shape of the wings of the C-27J.
David Cenciotti is a journalist based in Rome, Italy. He is the Founder and Editor of “The Aviationist”, one of the world’s most famous and read military aviation blogs. Since 1996, he has written for major worldwide magazines, including Air Forces Monthly, Combat Aircraft, and many others, covering aviation, defense, war, industry, intelligence, crime and cyberwar. He has reported from the U.S., Europe, Australia and Syria, and flown several combat planes with different air forces. He is a former 2nd Lt. of the Italian Air Force, a private pilot and a graduate in Computer Engineering. He has written five books and contributed to many more ones.
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