2008: a bad year for Italian military helicopters
Most probably, 2008 will be remembered as one of the worst years in the history of the Italian military helicopter aviation. At least 5 accidents occurred to aircraft belonging to…
Four ATR72MP to replace the ageing Italian fleet of Br.1150 Atlantic
On Dec. 22, a press release from Alenia Aeronautica announced the agreement reached by the Finmeccanica company and the Direzione Generale Armamenti Aeronautici (General Management for Aeronautical Armaments) of the…
Link 16 on board the Italian Tornado F.3?
I've just finished reading a couple of interesting articles published on the latest issue of Rivista Aeronautica (06/08). They deal with the Trial Imperial Hammer 2008 (TIH 08), a complex…
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"…
