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Aviation

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…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
September 7, 2007
F-104

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…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
August 30, 2007
Aviation

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…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
August 27, 2007
Italian Air Force

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…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
August 23, 2007
Aviation

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…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
August 21, 2007

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…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
August 18, 2007
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