JOHN GILLESPIE MAGEE JR., AVIATOR AND POET
John Gillespie Magee Jr. only lived for 19 years. But this Anglo-American pilot born in Shanghai, who served with the Royal Canadian Air Force in the Second World War, left us something extraordinary:
High Flight
"Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth
And danced the...
LOUIS BLÉRIOT
A few years after it was founded, the British daily newspaper, the Daily Mail promoted a special prize: £1,000 would be given to the first person able to fly over the English Channel. In order to understand the value of that amount of money...
EMBRAER 50º
700 candles.
That’s right, the 21 aeroplanes in our fleet are celebrating 50 years!
Rather, their parent company Embraer is celebrating half a century, because our aeroplanes are actually very young ?.
Since 2009, Air Dolomiti has partnered with the Brazilian company Embraer, becoming launch customer in...
JAMES STEWART
“The whole world believed James Stewart. They have never caught him acting”. These words come from Peter Bogdanovich, director, screenwriter and film critic.
James Maitland Stewart was a big, great actor from the United States. Already an Oscar winner in 1941 as an actor in...
THE MYTHOLOGY OF FLIGHT
Before Air Dolomiti, before the Wright brothers and the Montgolfier brothers, even before Leonardo Da Vinci’s flying machines, before any of these revolutionary inventions, humans could only fly in their wildest imaginations.
In ancient times, we looked to the sky, hungry for knowledge, observing celestial...
CHARLES LINDBERGH
In our section dedicated to great historical figures in the world of aviation, this time it’s the turn of Charles Lindbergh, a real rockstar for those who are passionate about aeroplanes.
Have you ever been awake, attentive and focused on doing something extremely demanding for...
PAN AM: STORY OF A MYTH OF AVIATION
Some brands made modern world history. And if “American Express” stands for credit card and “Gillette” for razor, “Pan Am” could stand for air company.
It was 1927 when the American businessman Juan Trippe founded the Aviation Corporation of America financed by some tycoons including...
THE MONTGOLFIER BROTHERS
Joseph Michele and Jacques Étienne Montgolfier were two French inventors who lived on the cusp of the 1700s and 1800s. Fathers of the hot air balloon (known as mongolfiera in Italian).
The hot air balloon, as rudimentary as it may seem to us now, was...
BEFORE GPS
How many objects do we take for granted every day? The mobile phone that allows us to contact children, friends and relatives at any time, the internet that allows us to buy flights at just the click of a few buttons, the credit cards...
THE HISTORY OF FLIGHT ATTENDANTS’ UNIFORMS
There are many reasons why flight attendants wear uniforms.
The first reason is a psychological one: there’s evidence that people have more confidence in uniformed professionals. Passengers rely on flight attendants and pilots on an aeroplane no less than they do doctors and nurses in...