A day in the life of the 9° Stormo of Grazzanise
A few months ago, my father-in-law gave me a nice book titled "A day in the life of Australia". In a few words, on March 6 1981 at 00:01 hours,…
Weather emergency
Since the last week, Italy has been interested by a wave of exceptionally bad weather conditions: torrential rains and thundestorms. Rome suffered many damages and according to Mayor Gianni Alemanno…
Three HH-3F cleared to fly
The Italian Air Force (ItAF) has ordered the return to their homebases of the 3 HH-3Fs of the 15th Stormo, that were on a deployment airport when all the "Pelikans"…
An F/A-18D crashes into a residential area in San Diego
On Dec. 9, an F/A-18D belonging to the VMFAT-101 of the USMC crashed into San Diego following an engine failure. The aircraft had departed from a routine mission from the…
F-104 profiles
Richard J. Caruana, an established aviation author and illustrator, sent me the following file f-104-layout_low containing an interesting series of F-104 profiles. The profiles were published on MODEL AIRPLANE INTERNATIONAL…
Inflight childbirth = lifetime free tickets?
In the last days I've spent a lot of time on the following website: http://gc.kls2.com/ It provides an interesting and useful tool to draw Great Circle routes: a great circle…
