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Aviation

The Italian AMX return from Nellis AFB

The 10 Italian AMXs that had departed from Istrana on Aug. 1 to attend both the Green and Red Flag in Nellis, returned to their homebase (after a fuel stop…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
September 8, 2009
Airspace violations

Airspace violations – Episode 1 – The USAAF faces Yugoslavian Yak-3s

The years following the end of WWII were very controversial and did not bring to a real peace for those territories claimed by two or more parts. Just to remain…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
September 4, 2009

F-104 movie screenplay

Rocco Zaccardi, an F-104 enthusiast living in NY, wrote me a few months ago to tell me that he had written a screenplay where the F-104 plays a 'leading' role…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
September 2, 2009
Aviation

Two more black SF-260EA

On Aug. 31, Matteo Marianeschi visited Latina and took the following pictures of two more SF-260EA being painted in the new high visibility colour scheme (read more here): MM55126 "70-35"…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
September 2, 2009
Airspace violations

Airspace violations – Prologue

This is the first of a series of articles, written with Simone Bovi, about military and civilian airspace violations. Simone is was born in Novara (Italy) in 1978 and he…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
August 31, 2009
Aviation

Exclusive pictures: first Italian Air Force SF-260EA in new colour scheme

The SF-260EA of the Latina-based 70° Stormo of the Aeronautica Militare (Italian Air Force, ItAF) will soon receive a high-visibility colour scheme since the previous grey one made rejoin and…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
August 28, 2009
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