On Dec. 14, 2013, the kickoff of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) football game between the U.S. Naval Academy (Navy) and the U.S. Military Academy (Army) at Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia was preceded by a flyover of the Blue Angels.
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.
“PS191” watched Russian Navy vessel firing rockets off Tartus. An interesting event took place on Jun. 19, 2020, near Syria. On that day, Cyprus had a NOTAM (Notice To AirMen) up for Russian Navy missile […]
With a series of tests conducted aboard USS Theodore Roosevelt the Navy’s unmanned X-47B drone demonstrated its ability to operated safely and seamlessly with manned aircraft. On Aug. 17, the U.S. Navy successfully tested its […]
A USCG MH-60 Jayhawk gets a cool vintage color scheme. Taken on Jan. 15, 2016, the following interesting photos feature the new special colored MH-60 Jayhawk arriving at Coast Guard Air Station Astoria, Ore.. Noteworhty the […]