Aviation

Weather emergency

Since the last week, Italy has been interested by a wave of exceptionally bad weather conditions: torrential rains and thundestorms. Rome suffered many damages and according to Mayor Gianni Alemanno the flood emergency was equivalent […]

Aircraft Carriers

Cavour aircraft carrier

Giovanni Maduli sent me this picture of the Italian aircraft carrier Cavour (550) he took recently in Fincantieri’s shipyards in Muggiano, near Genoa.  The ship, that will be delivered to the Marina Militare (Italian Navy) in 2008, has an overall length of 244 meters and […]