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The Italian Frecce Tricolori Display Team Celebrate Their 60th Anniversary
The Italian Frecce Tricolori Display Team Celebrate Their 60th Anniversary
The Frecce Tricolori display team performing the Rome flyover (Image credit: Alessandro Fucito)
The Frecce Tricolori is the Italian Air Force aerobatic display team. It’s the world’s largest military display team.
On Mar. 1, 2021 the Frecce Tricolori, the display team of the Aeronautica Militare (Italian Air Force), celebrated their 60th anniversary.
The unit, also known as the Pattuglia Acrobatica Nazionale (PAN, Italian Aerobatic Team) is, undoubtedly, the most popular and visible component of the Italian Air Force as well as a symbol of Italy: with its 10 Italian built aircraft – the MB.339A/PAN – the “Frecce” (Italian for “Arrows”) – form one of the world’s most prestigious aerobatic teams which offers, in around 25 minutes of display, a show that is almost unforgettable even to the most knowledgeable specta
F-15C (Eagle), and now soon to be F-15EX.”
The latest iteration of the F-15 Eagle Mission Design Series, the F-15EX features an increased payload capacity, fly-by-wire controls, a digital cockpit, modernized sensors, radars and electronic warfare capabilities.
Edwards notes the long service life of the F-15EX airframe–20,000 flight hours. “That’s a long time, about double the service the life of an F-15C,” Edwards said. “Not only is the airframe designed to last for a long time, the F-15EX also has an ‘open mission system’ which allows the computer and avionics software to be more adaptable and more easily updated in the future. This adaptability is key, as we know that technology is continuing to accelerate.”
The first F-15EX completed its initial flight in St. Louis Feb. 2. The fighter jet took off and landed from St. Louis Lambert International Airport, Missouri.,
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