Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward.
Leonardo Da Vinci
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GUIDE FOR PASSENGERS REQUIRING ADDITIONAL ASSISTANCE
"My advice to other disabled people would be, concentrate on things your disability doesn't prevent you doing well, and don't regret the things it interferes with. Don't be disabled in spirit, as well as physically". Stephen Hawking
It was 1991 when the small airline Air Dolomiti...
FIORENZA DE BERNARDI
Fiorenza De Bernardi was Italy’s first female aeroplane pilot (and the fourth in the world).
When she was just a little girl in the 1930s, Fiorenza was able to identify the different aircraft models simply by listening to the sound of their engines.
She had always...
HOW DO GLIDERS FLY?
If you love flying, you’ll know that you don’t always need an engine to fly.
Just like boats, planes can also fly using sail power. And that’s exactly how gliders fly.
Gliders are heavier-than-air aircraft, also called aerodynes, with a highly tapered fuselage and extremely long...
THE LIFE OF A PILOT. INTERVIEW WITH FIRST OFFICER GRIGORY SHEVANDIN
Working as a pilot is a rewarding profession.
FLIGHT is a superpower that shortens geographical distances and overcomes gravity. Through technology, humans are capable of overcoming the forces of nature. The possibility of flight touches at the heart of what it means to be human.
We...
HANGARS
How were the hangars born?
To answer this question, it’s interesting to start with the etymology of the term ‘hangar’.
It’s very likely that the word came from the Frankish haimgard, which means ‘enclosure annexed to the house’.
Do you remember the aviation pioneer Louis Blériot.
Well, during...
