Helicopters and the risk of RFID hacks
Eurocopter and Telit recently signed a contract according to which, Telit RF Technology will develop a wireless communication system to monitor helicopters critical systems and to improve aircraft maintenance. According…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
