Hi all , I’m just back from my Italian trip 😉
It was a very good show without gaps in the program but weather was poor with only some sun from time to time , but it was still better than on Saturday when it rained almost all day and I had to watch the rehearsals from inside my car…
That’s about the show , now the organisation , that was something else :rolleyes:
-No parking on base so park you car where you find a place for example on the beach , in the middle on the road , in the bushes …
-Then walk about one half hour
-Then wait another hour to get on a bus
-You’re finally on the base 🙂
Getting back to your car was much worse , a cue of some thousands of people waiting in a very heavy thunderstorm to get on the bus and then walk again an half hour to your car in the dark and rain 😡 , a spotter’s life can be hard 🙂
AND THE MOST NEGATIVE THING : THEY ONLY SOLD ALCOHOL FREE BEER :rolleyes:
Anyway , I enjoyed my 4 days stay very much , here some of my photos 😉
By: European - 3rd October 2006 at 15:12
Specifications – M-346 Advanced Fighter Trainer, Italy
Weights
Empty weight 4,610kg (10,165lb)
Take off weight, trainer 6,700kg (14,770lb)
Maximum weapon load 3,000kg (6,614lb)
Maximum take off weight, armed 9,000kg (19,842lb)
Engines
Type 2 x F124-GA-200 turbofan engines
Maximum thrust, s.l.s., ISA to 24.8°C 2 x 2,850kg (6,280lb)
Internal fuel capacity 1,750kg (3860lb)
Pressure ratio 19.4
By pass ratio 0.47
Specific fuel consumption 0.79kg/hr/kg
Air mass flow 42.6kg/sec
Performance
Max level speed (5,000ft) 585kts
Limit speed 572 KEAS (knots equivalent air speed)
Rate of climb, S.L. 127m/sec (20,000ft/min)
Stall speed, landing with 20% fuel 90 KCAS (knots calibrated air speed)
Service ceiling 13,700m (45,000ft)
Range with two external tanks, 10% reserve 2,590km (1,400nm)
Limiting load factor +8g / -3g
Maximum sustained load factor 5.8g
Maximum sustained turn rate (15,000ft) 14°/sec
Take off ground run 280m (920ft)
Landing ground run 580m (1,900ft)
Data
Wing span 9.72m (31.89ft)
Length 11.49m (37.71ft)
Height 4.98m (16.33ft)
Wing area 23.52m² (253.2ft²)
Weapons
MK82 500lb and MK83 1,000lb free fall or retarded bombs
Rocket launchers
AIM-9 Sidewinder short range air-to-air missiles
23mm or 30mm gun pods
AGM-65 Maverick air-to-ground missiles
Marte MK-2A anti-ship missiles
By: European - 3rd October 2006 at 15:04
Yeahhhh,
rain has been required from UK pilots. It seems they don’t feel ‘natural’ operating with sun and without water from the sky :p :p :p :p 🙂 😀 😀
By: dizzy - 29th September 2006 at 10:54
shame about the rain tho
By: European - 29th September 2006 at 07:17
Awesome.
Greats picts man!!
By: SEMAE - 25th September 2006 at 23:34
Nice images Fabke despite your trials and tribulations.
By: InFlames - 25th September 2006 at 22:57
Sunday
C-27J Spartan in the most beuatiful minutes of the day
An AM (Aeronautica Militare) formation of 19 MD500 helicopters
A very hot end of an Italian Eurofighter Typhoon
Swiss Hornet in a close fly-by
Turning and burning by Dutch F-16AM
Red Arrows at their best
Aermacchi’s future trainer M-346
All compliments go to Frecce Tricolori which took-off in dry but after about 3-4 minutes of their performance, heavy showers stormed in from the sea with visibility reduced to minimum and they still did their display as best as could and their comentator Andrea Saia, standing on the open and comentating their performance on rain instead of going inside the tent, being totally soaked. Not a lot of pics could be taken for obvious reasons but these two picture can give you faint idea how it was like when they landed and the worst was already over…
Also Thanks to Zdenko Frangez who borrowed me his Nikkor 70-300 lens for the show.
By: InFlames - 25th September 2006 at 22:57
My view of the airshow:
Saturday
F-104 gateguard
Italian AMX
A salute in return to me from a FAF Mirage 2000 pilot
Steep take-off of Swiss Hornet
Attractive Dutch demo F-16AM
Frecce Tricolori Mb.339PAN waiting for its turn
Pair of A-129s Mangustas
Hungarian Mi-24 in a humid air
Frecce tricolori now equipped with afterburner? 😀
By: European - 24th September 2006 at 22:00
your website doesn’t work
By: fabke - 24th September 2006 at 20:40
Did u see F35 mock-up, the new Aermacchi M346 and EFA?
Yes , the M346 even did a flying display
By: European - 24th September 2006 at 11:04
Did u see F35 mock-up, the new Aermacchi M346 and EFA?
By: neal h - 22nd September 2006 at 19:12
Bummer, I was in Italy but didn’t know about this show.
Nice photos
Neal
By: Wingswheeler - 21st September 2006 at 17:58
Very nice pictures Fabke!
Congrats!
By: bc2239 - 21st September 2006 at 17:02
Excellent pics there
By: Mark9 - 21st September 2006 at 11:20
Lovely pictures. 😉
By: Canpark - 20th September 2006 at 06:14
I like the Mi-24 Hind. Thank you:D:D
By: barrythemod - 19th September 2006 at 12:34
Thanks for suffering the trials and tribulations getting there,it was well worth it,cracking snaps 😀 Almost thaught you’d posted the same picture twice…..silly me 😮
By: dizzy - 19th September 2006 at 09:00
nice pics mate
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