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Virgin staff criticises safety standards on Facebook

In my opinion, Facebook is funny and useful. I use it often to keep me in touch with all of my relatives and friends, to share pictures and news even…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
October 27, 2008
Aviation

Contrails or chemtrails?

In the last years I watched the proliferation of pictures showing aircraft flying at high altitudes followed by the characteristic white trails (I discussed this thing in Italian in this…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
October 24, 2008
Aviation

An Italian HH-3F crashes in France killing 8 POB

On Oct. 23, at around 16.30LT (14.30 Zulu) an HH-3F belonging to the 84° CSAR (Centro SAR, SAR Center) based in Brindisi, crashed between Isle-en-Barrois and Vaubecourt, near Strasbourg, France,…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
October 24, 2008
Aviation

G.222, C-27A, C-27J and AC-27J Stinger updates

I had just finished to write an article dealing with the AC-27J Gunship Lite program, when I received a news article about the approval, granted by the Pentagon, for the…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
October 24, 2008
Aviation

AC-27J Gunship Lite

In a previous post (75.000 flight hours for the ItAF C-130J and first C-27J delivered to the US Army) I explained that two C-27J of the 98° Gruppo of the…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
October 23, 2008
Italian Air Force

International Fighter 2008

On Nov. 5 and 6, the Istituto di Scienze Militari Aeronautiche (ISMA), Italian Air Force Institute of Military Aeronautical Sciences in Florence, as part of the celebrations for the 70th…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
October 22, 2008
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