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Tales From The Cockpit: The “Pad of Shame”

February 18, 2021 Fabio Consoli

How to shame a wannabe test pilot. 41°39’31.9068”N 12°26’31.8372”E: these are the geographic coordinates of the infamous “Pad of Shame”. If you plot them on Google Map, they will take you right smack in the […]

Military Aviation

Tales From The Cockpit: First Flight In A Eurofighter Typhoon Prototype

January 19, 2021 Fabio Consoli

First hand account of a test pilot’s first flight in a Eurofighter Typhoon prototype, in 1996. Editor’s note: Fabio Consoli is a former Italian Air Force test pilot and USAF Test Pilot School distinguished graduate […]

Aviation Safety / Air Crashes

Mysterious Crash Of A USAF Classified Jet Near Nellis AFB Fuels Speculations Of F-35 Involved

September 9, 2017 Tom Demerly

A Second Pilot Was Killed Last Week, The Air Force Isn’t Saying Which Type (Then Says “Definitely not an F-35”). He Was An F-35 Pilot. Following the release of information about two A-10C Thunderbolt II […]

Airshows

Typhoon display: High Alpha Roll and High-G turns from inside the cockpit

June 16, 2011 David Cenciotti

I created the following image (using Photoshop) stitching 5 pictures of the F-2000A Typhoon of the Italian Air Force  I took at Jesolo Air Show rehearsal on Jun. 10, 2011 (the 2nd one being the […]

Aviation

Tornado ECR’s aggressive take off with ultra-low level turn

March 25, 2009 David Cenciotti

Des Barker recently sent me the above picture. It depicts a Tornado, in a clean configuration, perfoming an aggressive left turn at ultra low level, most probably immediately after take-off. If you look closely to […]

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