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Events, anniversaries, tales and characters

MARY CHANCE VANSCYOC

When we talk about women who have represented milestones in aviation history, we typically imagine very different contexts to that of today’s society. By that logic, we might think that when in 1938 the very young Mary Chance VanScyoc won the Women's State Rifle Championship...

AMELIA EARHART

If behind every great man there’s always a great woman, then behind a great woman there’s often another great woman. Amelia Earhart, the first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean and then later the Pacific, bought her first biplane thanks to her...

BESSIE COLEMAN

If during the 1920s becoming a pilot was quite an undertaking for any woman, imagine what would have been like for an African-American woman. Bessie Coleman was born in 1892 in one of the worst places for a woman like her to pursue her ambitions:...

EMBRAER 50º

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700 candles. That’s right, the 14 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

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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

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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

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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...

MARILYN AND THE AEROPLANES

How much do we really know about Marilyn Monroe? Who was Norma Jeane Mortenson Baker? How many of us know that her modelling and acting career related to aeroplanes? Platinum blonde hair. Angelic features. A profile able to turn the heads of sportsmen, intellectuals...