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Impressive video: behind the scenes of world’s largest aerobatic display team. Flying with the Frecce Tricolori 10-ship formation

Even while most people like to attend air shows to see aerobatic display teams performances, they usually don’t know what happens inside the formation, which are the main roles of…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
November 29, 2011
Military Aviation

Conformal Fuel Tanks, Storm Shadows, Meteor and IRIS-T missiles: the (really cool) multirole Typhoon offered to the UAE Air Force

I don't really know if this version of the Eurofighter Typhoon will ever become a reality. However, chances seems to be increased after Eurofighter received a quite surprising RFP (Request…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
November 28, 2011

The most unusual display team ever: two jet planes and a jet man. Is this the future of military aviation?

Yves Rossy is pilot with experience with the Dassault Mirage III and the F-5 Tiger in the Swiss Air Force, and with the B747 for Swissair. However, he is most…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
November 26, 2011
Aviation

Forget any security concern and welcome Air Force One on Flightradar24!

In my article titled Would modern transponders have made the hijacked planes visible to radars on 9-11? about Mode-S and ADS-B usage I wrote: According to an esteem by Flightradar24.com, around…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
November 24, 2011
Military Aviation

An interesting combat chopper profile officially cleared for publication: MH-60S "Armed Helo"

On May 3, 2011, in the aftermath of the Osama Bin Laden raid that disclosed the existence of a stealth helicopter based on the UH-60 "Black Hawk", I've started thinking…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
November 21, 2011
Aviation

Updated: Mysterious Stealth Helicopter photographed in California is a retrofitted obsolete chopper turned into gunship

Helikopter Hysterie blog's editor Axel M. Vollmer, who posted my Stealth Black Hawk digital mock up in May,  has recently taken the following pictures of a mysterious Stealth Helicopter sitting…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
November 18, 2011
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