Aviation
L'Atmosfera
Le domande che più di frequente mi vengono rivolte da parenti e amici, persone che non essendo appassionate si interessano al volo solo in occasione di viaggi effettuati a bordo di aerei civili, riguadano la […]
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Mil Mi 26's display at Rome Urbe
A Mil Mi 26T heavy transport helicopter (NATO code name “Halo”), the largest helicopter ever produced, made a firefighting display on Nov. 14th at Rome Urbe airport. Arrived from Greece (where it supported the season’s […]
Aviation
Oceanic Airlines 815 crash site & Lost island location
As I wrote on a previous post, on June 1st 2007 I flew from Brisbane to Los Angeles on board QF175. After about 5 hours flying over the Pacific Ocean the B-747-400 I was flying […]
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Flight Simulator(s)
An interesting easter egg was discovered in the last weeks by a student that found that by depressing CNTRL+ALT+A on the keyboard when using Google Earth, he was given access to an embedded flight simulator (once you have used the flight simulator […]
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Close encounters (snapshots from the Cold War)
As written in a previous post (Typhoon Block 5 and Cold War alert) on Aug. 17, 2007, Russia has begun 20 hours long strategic flights around the globe, like those carried out during the Cold War. […]