Ninth time I attend the yearly meeting of Historical Aircraft Group, held on 28th and 29th June on Dominio di Bagnoli airfield in Bagnoli di Sopra, near Padua. 2nd airshow in 3 days in the midst of an intense heatwave!
The only downside of this airshow weekend? A punctured tire while returning home…
Formation with a Cessna Bird Dog, 2 Boredom Fighter and a F8 Falco during the flag raising ceremony
Piper Cub formation
Maurizio Costa flying Pitts Special
Team Charlie TwentySix flying 2 MB Avio C26 ultralights
Fox 2! Luckily, the missile contained flares only!
Stampe SV-4
Stearman
Formation with 3 F8 Falco, general aviation plane designed by Stelio Frati, which this year celebrates 70 years since its first flight
Technically I can say I took a photo of a F14, F8 and F15 in formation. However, they were not fighters but an F14 Nibbio, 2 F8 Falco and an F15 Picchio, all designed by Stelio Frati.
Piaggio P.166
Slepcev Storch, ultralight replica of the famous WW2 German STOL plane
Guido Racioppoli flying Sukhoi Su-31
Yak-52
T-6 Texan
Formation with a Bird Dog and 2 Boredom Fighter
Grand finale with the Jonathan Collection WW1 replicas. Manfred von Richtofen’s Fokker Dr.I simulated the interception of the Caproni Ca.3, which was escorted by Francesco Baracca’s SPAD XIII. Obviously, this never happened in real life, but it is a cool “what-if” scenario!
Some interesting planes on static display only:
Junkers A50 Junior replica
Piaggio-Focke-Wulf FWP-149
Cessna 195
