Close encounters (snapshots from the Cold War)
As written in a previous post (Typhoon Block 5 and Cold War alert) on Aug. 17, 2007, Russia has begun 20 hours long strategic flights around the globe, like those carried…
Grosseto airbase
Grosseto airbase has changed a lot in the last 10 years. As described in my previous posts, today the airport it is the MOB of the ItAF Eurofighters (the Gioia…
Flying with the MB.339CD
In a previous post dealing with the Air-to-Air photography, I explained just a few of my air-to-air pictures are 3/4 frontal (thus taken looking in the circular area behind the…
Typhoon Block 5 and Cold War alert
Claudio Carretta left an interesting comment on my post Eurofighter Typhoon activity at Grosseto advising that among the aircraft spotted on Aug. 6, MM7285 "4-16" was the first Eurofighter Typhoon…
Kingscote airport (and CTAF), Kangaroo Island
Kingscote Airport, located on Kangaroo Island (the third largest island of Australia), is probably one of the smallest airports I've ever reached. Its coordinates are 35° 42.8' S 137° 31.3' E, meaning…
Airborne pickup – part 2
Dan Canin provided some more info concerning the Airborne pickup described in the post titled "Airborne pickup (rejoining with an F-104)": ....... I took a look at your description of the…
