Aviation

Air-to-Air photography

Una versione in italiano di quanto descritto in questo post può essere letta sul forum “Italian Vipers” cliccando qui. Many aircraft enthusiasts and photographers have noticed that the majority of the air-to-air pictures I took depict the subject from abeam or astern: most […]

Starfighter Swan Song

The following article was published in the December 2003 issue of Air Forces Monthly. For a backstage description of the flight that inspired this article please read this post: Airborne pickup (rejoining with an F-104). For air-to-air […]

Aviation

Airborne pickup (rejoining with an F-104)

There are basically 2 ways to rejoin a chasing aircraft with another aircraft of a different type: the interception and the so-called “airborne pickup”. Since I’m talking about dissimilar aircraft, I’m not considering the formation take-off, something that is  performed by two aircraft of […]