C-17 Gear up landing in Bagram: the aircraft accident investigation board report
On Jan. 30, 2009, a C-17A tail number 60002 landed at Bagram air base in Afghanistan with the landing gear retracted. A few days after the mishap I published some…
AMX over Afghanistan on board video
A video, showing the images recorded by a Recce Lite pod of an AMX and transmitted to a ground unit equipped with a Remote Optical Video Enhanced Receiver (ROVER) via…
F-16I Sufa and the IAF deployments overseas
After reading my latest posts about the Israeli detachment to Decimomannu for the Vega 2010 exercise, Matteo Marianeschi sent me the following pictures of the two Israeli Air Force F-16I…
Interesting “hardware” brought to Decimomannu by the Israeli Air Force
Needless to say, the recent partecipation of the Israeli Air Force in Vega 2010 (VEX 10) exercise attracted the interest of aircraft enthusiasts and spotters who were delighted to see…
Exercise Vega 2010 @ Decimomannu airbase – part 4
Below, more pictures about Vega 2010 exercise taken by Giovanni Maduli in Decimomannu. Part 1 Part 2 Part 3
An unusual sight: hook down landing on runway
Arrested landings on aircraft carrier require a tailhook to catch one of the four deck's wires but almost all military planes, even the ground based ones have a hook, that…
