David Cenciotti is a freelance 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 four books.
X-47B has completed first contact with an aerial refueling hose. On Apr. 16, “Salty Dog 502”, one of the two Unmanned Carrier Air Vehicle demonstrator (UCAS-D) aircraft of the X-47B program performed autonomous aerial refueling […]
The U.S. Air Force has recently announced that the 4 year repair process of the B-2 Spirit of Washington has been completed. The plane burnt down back in February 2010 during a take-off from Andersen Air […]
We Went Inside Northrop Grumman Demonstration of Critical Anti-Ballistic Missile Technology. Sometime in the future, diplomacy may fail. An overnight incident in the Pacific between a U.S. Navy vessel and an adversary nation submarine causes […]
