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.
Yes, you read that right: instead of the Navy Blue Angels, the Air Force Thunderbirds flew their show at the Navy’s premier East Coast Master Jet Base, NAS Oceana. This year’s NAS Oceana Air Show […]
A new prototype of the weird Qaher 313 stealth jet has conducted taxi tests. Footage and photographs showing a new prototype (marked “08”) of the famous Qaher F-313 stealth fighter jet have just emerged as […]
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What was the Bubble Load in the wings
It is a search-light
Search light. The A and B models had these…guess the Iranians wanted to keep them when they bought the “F”.
Very cool.
If memory serves, that’s the callsign of the guy who made the 2013 Hornet Ball complication…
The F-18 pilot should have done what they did back in the Cold War intercept days and held a Playboy centerfold up for the Iranians to ogle.Who knows, they could have defected!
hahaha…. Not in Obama’s military where Political Correctness wins over military muscle. We shouldn’t offend our Muslim enemies. :))
Could be a female -18 driver too. Besides, you’re not gonna find a Playboy on the boat anymore.
What was the Bubble Load in the wings
It is a search-light
Search light. The A and B models had these…guess the Iranians wanted to keep them when they bought the “F”.
Very cool.
If memory serves, that’s the callsign of the guy who made the 2013 Hornet Ball complication…
The F-18 pilot should have done what they did back in the Cold War intercept days and held a Playboy centerfold up for the Iranians to ogle.Who knows, they could have defected!
hahaha…. Not in Obama’s military where Political Correctness wins over military muscle. We shouldn’t offend our Muslim enemies. :))
Could be a female -18 driver too. Besides, you’re not gonna find a Playboy on the boat anymore.