F-104 movie screenplay
Rocco Zaccardi, an F-104 enthusiast living in NY, wrote me a few months ago to tell me that he had written a screenplay where the F-104 plays a 'leading' role…
Two more black SF-260EA
On Aug. 31, Matteo Marianeschi visited Latina and took the following pictures of two more SF-260EA being painted in the new high visibility colour scheme (read more here): MM55126 "70-35"…
Airspace violations – Prologue
This is the first of a series of articles, written with Simone Bovi, about military and civilian airspace violations. Simone is was born in Novara (Italy) in 1978 and he…
Exclusive pictures: first Italian Air Force SF-260EA in new colour scheme
The SF-260EA of the Latina-based 70° Stormo of the Aeronautica Militare (Italian Air Force, ItAF) will soon receive a high-visibility colour scheme since the previous grey one made rejoin and…
Maritime SAR Exercise
On Aug. 27, Giovanni Maduli, witnessed, from the beach of Torvaianica, next to Pratica di Mare airbase, to an interesting Maritime SAR (Search And Rescue) exercise involving an AB212 of…
The Universal Studios B-747 crash set
I took the following pictures in 2007, during the Universal Studios tour in Hollywood, CA, USA. They depicts the outdoor airplane crash set built for War of the Worlds movie,…
