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Aviation

Cervia 08.04.09 – the last days of activity with the F-16 for the 23° Gruppo

With the imminent end of the Peace Caesar programme, scheduled for 2010, the 23° Gruppo of the 5° Stormo of Cervia has been flying its last sorties with the F-16…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
April 10, 2009
Italian Air Force

71° Gruppo P.166DL3 supporting the Abruzzo earthquake rescue

On Apr. 6, 2009, at 03.33AM LT, a 6.3 magnitude earthquake hit the Abruzzo region, in central Italy, killing more than 280 people, causing entire buildings to collapse and leaving…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
April 7, 2009
Aviation

MM62012 current status

The "I-2012", a DC9-32 of the 31° Stormo of the Aeronautica Militare (Italian Air Force, ItAF), is one of the most famous Italian aircraft. It carried the Italian National football…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
April 6, 2009
Italian Air Force

Italian Air Force patches

Since a lot of visitors of this website are interested in Italian Air Force Heraldry, I've decided to publish images of the new patches produced by the various operative units…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
April 4, 2009
Military Aviation

F-4 low passage after take off

A few days ago I've published a dramatic picture of a Tornado ECR perfoming a low level passage after take off from Cameri here http://cencio4.wordpress.com/2009/03/25/low-level-tornado-ecr/. Those who commented the picture…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
April 3, 2009
Aviation

Italian UAVs update

With the completition of the fifth mission, the Sky-Y, Alenia Aeronautica’s unmanned technological demonstrator, completed its first series of tests in Italy (third test campaign after two performed in Sweden).…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
April 2, 2009
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