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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
Military Aviation

Video: unidentified flying object trailing a C-17 over the U.S. West Coast

Recorded on Nov. 11, 2011 (or if you prefer on 11/11/11) this video shows an unknown object trailing a C-17 Globemaster III over the U.S. West Coast. Although it is…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
November 16, 2011
Military Aviation

Adm. Di Paola is the first military in active service to be named Italy's Defense Minister

Former Italian Chief of the Defense Staff, Adm. Giampaolo Di Paola, has been named Italy's new Defense Minister as part of a Cabinet named on Nov. 16 and led by…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
November 16, 2011

Special feature: the most interesting pictures of the aircraft involved in Libya air war (Part 2)

After publishing the first Special Feature to celebrate the end of the war in Libya with the most interesting aircraft involved in Operation Unified Protector, many photographers sent me more…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
November 15, 2011
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Shindand airbase: Afghan Air Force main training facility

Shindand (or Shindad), in Western Afghanistan, will be the future Afghan Air Force (AAF) main training facility. Today it is the base used by the young and quite small Afghan…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
November 14, 2011

Fighter Planes vs Racecars: same tech, same physical laws, same charm

Hands On Throttle And Stick, Variable Geometry Intakes, Movable Ailerons and Wings, Boundary Layer Control, etc. are only but few technologies common to Military Aviation and Formula One. Aerodynamics is…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
November 11, 2011
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