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As already reported in detail, in 2024, the Frecce Tricolori display team will visit U.S. and Canada for the first North American tour in more than 30 years. The tour will bring the Italian Air Force jets to Canada, where RCAF (Royal Canadian Air Force) celebrates its 100th anniversary and then over the U.S, attending airshows on both the East and...

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Monroe County Executive Adam Bello and the Frederick Douglass Greater Rochester International Airport today announced that the Italian Air Force Frecce Tricolori will headline the 2024 A.P. Property Services Rochester International Airshow on Saturday, August 3 and Sunday, August 4, 2024. Joining Frecce Tricolori in the program will be the United S...

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Just over two months after the 2023 California Capital Airshow, organizers announced an appearance from an Italian military jet demonstration team at the 2024 edition. The Frecce Tricolori will appear for an evening airshow on July 13 and 14, one of seven appearances the team will make in the United States, according to organizers. The Italian team...

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The Frecce Tricolori (Tricolor Arrows) is the aerobatics display team of the Italian Air Force. Based at Rivolto Air Base,12 miles southwest of the northern Italian city of Udine, the Frecce Tricolori was created on March 1, 1961, to train Italian pilots in aerobatics. Considered a national symbol of Italy, the Frecce Tricolori replaced other unoff...

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The Aeronautica Militare Italiana (Italian Air Force) celebrated the 100th anniversary of its founding as an independent air arm this past weekend (June 16th/19th, 2023) with three-days of fabulous flying and festivities at Pratica di Mare Air Base, a few miles southwest of Rome. For the occasion, the Italian Air Force showcased the majority of its...

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The Italian Air Force, or Aeronautica Militare Italiana, commemorates its 100th anniversary with a series of celebrations across Italy, including a major event in Rome. The Air Force Experience will be hosted in the capital's central Piazza del Popolo from 24-29 March, celebrating the world of military aeronautics with stands, meetings, simulators...

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The 2023 edition of the Maratona di Roma will be launched on Sunday 19 March with a tenor singing the national anthem followed by a flypast over the Colosseum by Italy's Frecce Tricolori jets. Famous for emitting plumes of the three colours from the Italian flag, the aerobatic demonstration team of the Italian Air Force takes to the skies to mark i...

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The Frecce Tricolori, literally "Tricolour Arrows", are the aerobatic demonstration team of the Italian Air Force and are among Italy's best known national symbols. The military jets, famous for emitting plumes of the three colours from the Italian flag, take to the skies to mark important events and public holidays in Italy, including Festa della...

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Le Frecce Tricolori translates as the Tricolor Arrows, but I find the name much more appealing in the original. Involving ten aircraft, nine in close formation plus a soloist, the Italian group is the world’s largest and most famous aerobatics patrol, with a typical flight demonstration including about twenty maneuvers in an approximately thirty-mi...

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On 25 April Italy celebrates the 77th Festa della Liberazione which marks the country’s liberation from German occupation and fascist rule at the end of world war two. A public holiday across Italy, all state schools and offices are closed on Monday 25 April, as well as many shops. The day is marked in Rome with a ceremony at 09.00 at the Altare de...

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