SINGING IN THE AIR
Writers and poets have always considered flying to be a mysterious and fascinating concept, but music may well be its most successful field. Let’s set aside for a moment Sinatra’s "Fly me to the Moon", all of those songs about "your mind flying away",...
AVIATORS AND WRITERS OF THE PAST: 3 BOOKS FOR AEROPLANE LOVERS
For some reason, certain aviators loved writing. Maybe looking at the world from up in the sky inspired them to come up with fantastic tales made of clouds, blue skies and new perspectives.
You might remember Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, a very famous French aviator and...
FIVE APPS FOR SPORTS TRAVELLERS
Tourism, business, personal reasons: these are the main reasons why many of us choose to fly somewhere.
There is, however, one category of traveller that we at Air Dolomiti particularly love (since we operate in some of the airports connected with the most beautiful ski...
NEL BLU, DIPINTO DI BLU OR ‘VOLARE’ BY DOMENICO MODUGNO
Volare oh, oh
Cantare, oh oh
Nel blu dipinto di blu
Our blog is published in three languages (Italian, German and English) because we want to kindly welcome our readers, just as we do our passengers. But there are some things, words, phrases and verses which need...
SCENES SET ON AEROPLANES IN TV SERIES
Necessary premise: it’s never a good sign when a TV series starts on an aeroplane. Just think of the enormously popular TV series Lost (2004-2010), Manifest, created by Jeff Rake in 2018, and the latest Belgian series Into the Night.
In this article, thankfully, we’re...
A TRIP TO THE MUSEUM
If you’re truly passionate about aviation, then you must have been to a museum dedicated to aeroplanes at least once in your life, haven’t you?
There are hundreds of them around the world. Aviation, aerospace, war, science and technology museums satisfy the curiosity of flying...
PODCASTS TO LISTEN TO WHILE ON THE PLANE
What can you do while flying?
As you probably already know, you can read a book or magazine, or take a nap if you’re one of those people who can sleep on cue.
Today, though, we’d like to recommend some great podcasts you can listen to,...
PAPER AEROPLANES
Do you remember folding sheets of paper with the utmost precision during school breaks to make little paper aeroplanes? And how satisfied you were as you saw them fly further and further away?
These paper planes are called kami hikoki in Japanese. Why in Japanese?...
WHO ARE PLANE SPOTTERS?
Are you familiar with birdwatching?
It’s an activity, somewhere between a hobby and studying, involving observing birds in their natural environment.
Swap birds for aeroplanes and you get plane spotting. :)
Plane spotters are passionate about aeroplanes and sometimes also photography. They lie in wait in strategic...
AIRPORTS DESIGNED BY ARCHISTARS
French anthropologist Marc Augé called them ‘non-places’.
Non-places are spaces where large numbers of people spend time every day, mainly alone, but always just passing through.
They include train stations, motorway rest areas, amusement parks and above all airports.
However, airports are not without a soul, or...