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On Tuesday 24, 2009 2 Aermacchi MB.339CM (the digital version developed for the Malaysian AF) departed from the Venegono airfield for a 3 days flight (with 11 technical stops) to the SE Asia. These aircraft (CSX55136 '14' and CSX55137 '15') are the first two of an order for 8, that will replace the ...

Yesterday afternoon, during the Abu Dhabi IDEX 2009, the UAE government has announced the order for 48 new M-346 for its pilot school. The first aircraft will be delivered in 2012, and the final assembly line will be in Abu Dhabi (in charge of the Mubadala Development Company). This is the first off...

24/11/2008 MM7071/6-12 Tornado IDS AMI MM7022/6-23 Tornado IDS AMI MM7026/6-35 Tornado IDS AMI MM7088/6-10 Tornado IDS AMI MM62191/46-57 C130J-30 AMI This is the Air Task Group "Devil" departed from Ghedi AB (Italy) at about 8.15 AM, they were directed to Mazar-e-Sharif (Afghanistan). These Tornado...

Hi all, I've read on an Italian newspaper that a virus has downed all the Rafales (not sure if both Marine and AdlA) due to a incapacity to upload flightplan onto the aircraft (all the PC where the flightplan software was loaded was locked by that virus). Does anyone of you has any precise news on t...

I used to buy in this ebay shop, that has also a shop in Bologna... Prices are really very low: a Canon 70-200 f4 IS USM is €880 shipped!
I've bought 2 Canon lenses from it, one of them (100-400) get the Canon cashback bonus!

It is not clear... but looking at the age of the Atlantic, it could be!

Armasuisse had contacted again the three candidate for the partial replacement of the F-5E/F. The request is for 22 aircraft or 2.2 billion CHF (approx. 1.5 billion €) - that is, how many aircraft the firms can supply within this budget. EADS, Dassault and Saab must send a new offer within mid April...

A contract of 4 ATR-72 in the Maritime Patrol version has been signed by the Italian Government and Finmeccanica.
The airplanes deliveries will start in 2012 and they will be operated by a mixed Air Force/Navy crew.

The Slovak Air Force has signed an order of 2 C-27J in order to replace the old Antonov still in service. An option for other 2 were also placed. The plan is to use them for moving troups and materials from/to Afghanistan (and, obviously, for other transportation matters). Slovakia is the eighth Nat...

You can find some information at this page. It is in Italian but French and German are also available.

Flight restrictions are scheduled as follows:
Friday, January 23th from 8AM to 6PM;
Monday, January 26th from 8AM to 6PM;
from Teusday, January 27th at 8AM to Monday, February 2nd at 6PM.

I've found these two articles about the Swiss F/A-18s update program and the pod is part of that update: http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/switzerlands-hornet-upgrade-25-program-04471/ http://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htproc/articles/20071226.aspx As the articles say, the pod is the AN/ASQ-228A(V)...

Hi all, this last week the Alenia Aermacchi M-346 "Master" (this is the name given to the aircraft) has broken the sound barrier reaching the speed of 1250 Km/h in level flight and clean configuration! The aircraft mounts 2 Honeywell F124 turbofan. I hope to see many of them with different roundels ...

I'm still a K64 collector, I started many years ago and (after a stop for some reasons) I re-started taking shot both digital and slides. I think that collecting slides gives much more pleasure than taking digital images, and exchanging them has its own charm! If you are interested in exchanging som...

Hi,
I think that the M.IV is there!

You can find the official announce on the AMI website here . The helo came from Brindisi, then stopped at Rimini where another HH-3F joined the first and together headed to Florennes for the TLP, making a technical stop at Dijon. A French witness said that she heard a bang and looking at the helo it...