Operation Unified Protector (was Odyssey Dawn) explained (Day 68 – 80)
Previous debriefings: Archive As reported in the previous Debriefs, although not being as intense as one might expect, NATO air campaign may be slowly paying off. Thanks also to the…
First Airbus A380 lands at Rome Fiumicino airport
On Jun. 6, 2011, the first (long awaited) Emirates Airbus 380 landed at Rome Fiumicino. It was a one-off trip to celebrate Fiumicino airport's 50th anniversary, along with 150th anniversary…
Tornado reheat (and fuel dumping)
If you look for pictures of Italian Tornados taken few seconds after take off you'll find a few showing what appears to be a fuel leakage (similar to the one…
RSA Security breach explained: why US defense programs could be compromised
As almost everybody know by now, on Mar. 17, 2011, RSA (the Security Division of EMC Corporation and one of the most important IT Security vendors of the world) publicly…
China has already reverse-engineered the Stealth Black Hawk
Those who were worried that China could get its hands on some pieces of the ill-fated chopper that crashed in the Osama Bin Laden compound to reverse-engineer the Stealth helicopter…
Blue Angels' almost crash: the risk of Controlled Flight Into Terrain during formation aerobatics
On May 22, 2011, the US Navy Flight Demonstration Squadron was performing at Lynchburg Regional Air Show, Va, when the diamond formation went too low at the end of the…
