Hi everybody! It has been a long time since I last posted here, apart from some posts in General Discussion once every... err... few years or so

For those of you who don't remember me (or those who joined after I "left"), I am the "airplane crazy" guy who left the FS scene almost 7 years ago, when I started studying aerospace engineering (BTW, I STILL haven't graduated, it has been... quite more difficult than I thought). Few years ago I started aircraft spotting, and this year I travelled quite a lot to attend some airshows. Recently I was even asked to cooperate with an Italian aviation magazine, but I was turned down at the last moment

Here are some photos from this year's airshow.
Patrouille de France's 60th Anniversary, near MarseilleRamex Delta display duo, with 2 French Air Force Mirage 2000s


Fastroping from a French Air Force EC-725 Caracal

Patrulla Aguila (Spanish Air Force)

Patrouille de France

Frecce Tricolori (Italian Air Force)

French Air Force Rafale
Royal International Air Tatto, Fairford (UK), the biggest airshow in the worldBritish Airways A380 flying in formation with Royal Air Force's Red Arrows

RAF Chinook

Airbus A400M heavy transport

Hungarian Air Force JAS 39 Gripen

Italian Air Force Typhoon

Italian Air Force KC-767 refueling an Italian and a RAF Typhoon

The last airworthy Avro Vulcan in the world

Red Bull's B-25 Mitchell and F4U Corsair

Red Arrows

Battle of Britain Memorial Flight

Polish Air Force MiG-29
Oris Fly-In, Ambri (Switzerland)Airworthy former Swiss Air Force Hawker Hunters from the Altenrhein aviation museum


Boeing Stearman

Antonov An-2

Airworthy former Swiss Air Force de Havilland Vampire, this one from the Altenrhein museum too

And finally some minor Italian airshows
AeroParma 2013Italian Air Force HH-3F Pelican, SAR demo

Fiat G.59, a post-WW2 trainer built using the fuselage of a Fiat G.55 fighter with a Rolls-Royce Merlin engine (the same one of the Spitfire)

Aermacchi MB.326 trainer, owned by a private. Recently restored to flying conditions, it's the last airworthy one in the world
FlyParty 2013, an historic aircraft meetingAgusta-Bell AB-47, the first helicopter built in Italy

P3 Flyers display team, from Switzerland

Wolf W-11 Boredom Fighter, an ultralight airplane built to look like a WW1 fighter

Aermacchi MB.308 Macchino, the first airplane built in Italy after WW2

A pylon race with airplanes designed by the recently-gone engineer Stelio Frati

Probably the strangest flying machine ever built... the AeroGallo ("Flying Rooster")
Baracca Day 2013, a small fly-in to commemorate the death of WW1 top Italian Ace Francesco Baraccade Havilland Tiger Moth and a replica of Red Baron's Fokker Dr.I

Pitts Special

Blue Voltige display team with Fournier motorgliders

Thank you for watching
