Francesco Giannini

Aircraft designer, aviation history nerd, enthusiastic cook

[Francesco Giannini @AeroEng37]

@wildbluejester @clark_aviation I have a soft spot for these ungainly specialized aircraft with stalky fixed landing gear. Same thing for the Epervier.

[Francesco Giannini @AeroEng37]

@Hush_Kit Fantastic picture!

[Francesco Giannini @AeroEng37]

@Hush_Kit Since most of my favourites have been posted already, I'll throw in the Tchaika because of the deep fuselage, gull wing and slender turboprop nacelles. Very lean.

[Francesco Giannini @AeroEng37]

@ValkStrategy @Hush_Kit The Flying Clog??? Really embracing "There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion" there, @ValkStrategy !

[Francesco Giannini @AeroEng37]

@ValkStrategy @GripenNews @FTusa284 i had heard the hilarious quote before but did not know the context 😂

[Francesco Giannini @AeroEng37]

@Aviation_Intel slight correction: Thomas Akers, is the founder and CEO of Zone 5, not Kongsberg as stated in the article

[Francesco Giannini @AeroEng37]

@Hush_Kit @CombatAir "Hell is where the chefs are British, the mechanics French, the lovers Swiss, the police German and it's all organised by the Italians."
There has to be an equivalent for building a European fighter. I hope we don't get that.

[Francesco Giannini @AeroEng37]

@Hush_Kit @CombatAir you know the joke "Heaven is where the police are British, the cooks are French, the mechanics German, the lovers Italian and it's all organised by the Swiss." 1/

[Francesco Giannini @AeroEng37]

@clark_aviation I don't get it, is the Victor walking the Vulcan on a leash? /s
This is awful and so low-effort. The speaker deserves the flak.

[Francesco Giannini @AeroEng37]

@GarethJennings3 DARPA Longshot is along the same lines, although air-launched and non-recoverable

[Francesco Giannini @AeroEng37]

@Rotorfocus @AirbusDefence Son of Barracuda.

[Francesco Giannini @AeroEng37]

@ValkStrategy funnily enough, you have to think in Russian to fly it.

[Pima Air & Space Museum @pimaair]

Stop by and check out our new addition, C-2A (R) 162166 Greyhound on loan from the @navalmuseum is now on display! #c2greyhound #cod #pimaairandspace

[Francesco Giannini @AeroEng37]

@Hush_Kit One of the rare cases where the splinters are a downgrade. The red livery is just too slick IMHO!

[Francesco Giannini @AeroEng37]

@CurtisLemay @Aviation_Intel Ding ding ding ding ding!
How dare you let engineering get in the way of a good marketing story... 🙄

[Boeing Defense @BoeingDefense]

A new era in naval aviation takes flight!

The first @USNavy MQ-25A Stingray™ has completed its first flight, demonstrating its ability to taxi, take off, fly, and land autonomously.

MQ-25A will extend the carrier air wing's reach by providing unmanned aerial refueling.

[Francesco Giannini @AeroEng37]

@Hush_Kit A two-volume gallery of aviation misfits, by Giorgio Evangelisti, 1980. Probably weighs two and a half kilos, and it came with a rigid sleeve. My introduction to a lot of aviation oddities.

[Francesco Giannini @AeroEng37]

@thewarzonewire VTOL aircraft have low payload weight fractions (big engine relative to size = less mass for everything else). Is it really worth having an operationally flexible tanker if it has little offload capability?

[Francesco Giannini @AeroEng37]

@Rotorfocus It's not like there weren't another 573 native American tribe names to pick from. 🙄
But the naming convention jumped the shark long ago (don't get me started on the numbering! F-35, F-47, etc.)

[Francesco Giannini @AeroEng37]

@Hush_Kit Superb. Honestly, even the origami folding of the Gannet doesn't hold a candle to the Barracuda. It takes a lot of head scratching and looking at several pictures to even begin to understand what the hell is going on.