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5 day Northern Italy tour

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Zonan
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5 day Northern Italy tour

Post by Zonan » Tue Sep 01, 2020 9:27 am

A few days on a few bases in northern Italy.
Not too much movements, but lots of different aircraft :clap:
Went to Aviano, Casarsa della Delizia, Istrana, Ghedi (no flights)

First off was Aviano

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Image89-2035 by Zonan Adolfse, on Flickr

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Image90-0773 by Zonan Adolfse, on Flickr

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Image88-0413 by Zonan Adolfse, on Flickr

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Image89-2118 by Zonan Adolfse, on Flickr

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Image89-2118 by Zonan Adolfse, on Flickr

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Image89-2035 by Zonan Adolfse, on Flickr

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Image87-0351 by Zonan Adolfse, on Flickr

8. Visiting AMX from Istrana
ImageMM7182 by Zonan Adolfse, on Flickr

9. Evening wave departed late, so arrival was backlit :(
Image90-0773 by Zonan Adolfse, on Flickr

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Image87-0359 by Zonan Adolfse, on Flickr


Some rare helos at Casarsa, where A129s, AB206s and UH90s are based.

11. UH-90A
ImageMM81545 by Zonan Adolfse, on Flickr

12. A129 Mangusta
ImageMM81419 by Zonan Adolfse, on Flickr

13. AB205
ImageMM80725 by Zonan Adolfse, on Flickr

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ImageMM81326 by Zonan Adolfse, on Flickr


Istrana had some bad luck with runway use and local flights (only 2 AMXs en 4 F-2000s)
Luckily we did have luck with the visiting Israeli C-130, which was en route to Nörvenich

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ImageMM55043 by Zonan Adolfse, on Flickr

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ImageMM7316 by Zonan Adolfse, on Flickr

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Image427 by Zonan Adolfse, on Flickr

18. gate guard
ImageMM7144 by Zonan Adolfse, on Flickr

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ImageMM7314 by Zonan Adolfse, on Flickr

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ImageMM7316 by Zonan Adolfse, on Flickr


Day 4 was Ghedi. We arrived around 9:15 and saw 6 tornados flying a formation over the base. As we arrived at the fence they all landed from the other side and the rest of the day it was quiet...
Trying to take a shot over the fence is really not possible, although you can see the base at some parts, there is police everywhere and military guards at watch towers watching you all the time.
With not even 10 minutes of sitting near the fence, the Carabinieri came to us. They asked us several questions about our reason of visit, where we stayed, where we live and wrote down all our personal details from our passports on a list with other people. Not even 5 minutes after they left, the local police arrived and told us the same things, asked pretty much the same questions and then told us we could not stand this close to the fence and sent us to a dirt road, about 200 metres away from the fence. Not that it mattered, as nothing would fly for the rest of the day anyway :(

the final days were spent in the alps, with not too good weather, but still had a good time.
On the day of flying back home we stayed at the airport for a few hours and walked to the Police hangar (and catched some civil too).
Still got 4 Polizia di Stato aircraft though :)

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ImagePS-B05 by Zonan Adolfse, on Flickr

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ImagePS-86 by Zonan Adolfse, on Flickr

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Re: 5 day Northern Italy tour

Post by Petepilot » Tue Sep 01, 2020 9:15 pm

Good shots, thanks for sharing :thumbs: . Ghedi is like that..... :ninja:

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Re: 5 day Northern Italy tour

Post by paddyboy » Wed Sep 02, 2020 5:22 am

Cracking set there, Zonan :thumbs:

Thanks for posting :thumb:

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Re: 5 day Northern Italy tour

Post by tairngreacht_bas » Wed Sep 02, 2020 8:03 am

Great shot's Zonan.

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Re: 5 day Northern Italy tour

Post by MRTT » Wed Sep 02, 2020 8:59 am

Cracking set, Zonan. :thumb:

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Re: 5 day Northern Italy tour

Post by Blackcat1 » Wed Sep 02, 2020 1:06 pm

Lovely set. Were the Tornados returning from Deci?
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Re: 5 day Northern Italy tour

Post by Zonan » Wed Sep 02, 2020 1:35 pm

Thanks everyone :thumbs:
Blackcat1 wrote:
Wed Sep 02, 2020 1:06 pm
Lovely set. Were the Tornados returning from Deci?
They were performing a flyby due to a change of command ceremony, which probably is also the reason why they didn't fly any missions for the rest of the day

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Re: 5 day Northern Italy tour

Post by Blackcat1 » Wed Sep 02, 2020 1:48 pm

Ah I see, many thanks for that
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Re: 5 day Northern Italy tour

Post by Imac » Wed Sep 02, 2020 4:50 pm

Hi Zonan,

Top set from a nice part of Italy :thumbs: Thanks for posting :thumb:

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Re: 5 day Northern Italy tour

Post by sschofield » Thu Sep 03, 2020 12:55 pm

Nice work Zonan. Bear in mind that Ghedi is one of 2 Italian bases (and one of only 4 in Europe) that hosts American B61 nuclear bombs, which tends to make security super-twitchy!

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