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Aviation

F-104 air-to-air pictures by Katsuhiko Tokunaga

Many visitors of my site and photo gallery ask me questions about aviation photography and especially about shooting air-to-air from a chase plane. I've already written about the difficulties of…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
May 11, 2009
Aviation

157th Anniversary of the Polizia di Stato (Italian State Police)

The Polizia di Stato (PS, Italian for State Police), the Armed Corps depending on the Ministry of the Interior celebrated on May 8, its 157th anniversary. Among the ceremonies to…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
May 8, 2009

C-17 gear up landing: investigation results

After publishing the pictures of the famous C-17 gear up landing in Bagram there was much discussion among the visitors of this site about the root cause of the accident,…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
May 8, 2009
Aviation

A very rare bird!

Giovanni Maduli sent me the extremely interesting picture of a Beechcraft Super King Air 200 aircraft with a modified nose section and wearing ATK and Vitrociset markings that you can…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
May 5, 2009
Aviation

E-3 AWACS contrails over Northern Italy

On Apr. 30, around 10.00AM LT, Fabrizio Berni noticed some contrails above Brescia and took the following interesting pictures. As the aircraft was orbiting, the shape of the contrails was…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
May 3, 2009
Aviation

Air-to-air photo sessions: when better communication would prevent panic

During my career as a journalist, I've had some chances to chase other aircraft and take interesting air-to-air pictures. It happened when I took the a/a pics of the F-104s,…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
May 1, 2009
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