The following pictures were taken by Andrea El Dabh (whose site can be visited at the link https://sites.google.com/site/aereiedintorni/) at around 17.00LT on May 5, 2010 while he was boarding a Ryanair flight. The images show a quite unusual visitor at Ciampino airport, the B747-400 “9K-ADE”. The same aircraft, along with a State of Kuwait A-320 had visited Malpensa on May 2, 2010.
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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