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...
INVENTORS OF FLYING MACHINES
Let’s travel back in time. Before aeroplanes, before fast and safe travel, before the world was at our fingertips, flying was a privilege reserved only for birds.
For centuries, the curious were discouraged by Greek mythology, with the dramatic story of Icarus, a brave man...
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:...
MARGOT DUHALDE SOTOMAYOR
“Women have always had to fight twice as much. They’ve always had to carry two loads, one of which is private and the other public. Women are the back bone of society.” Rita Levi-Montalcini.
Female aviators from the past are a recurring theme in our...
HARRIET QUIMBY
It is with great pleasure that we dedicate today’s article to Harriet Quimby, an aviation pioneer who did not receive anywhere near as much attention as she should have.
It is a shame that aviation history has not dedicated a place of honour to this...
HÉLÈNE DUTRIEU
Pioneering women. Skilled women. Fearless women. Strong women. Or, more simply, women. Hélène Dutrieu was all this and much more.
In this column dedicated to some of the most fascinating stories from the past, we often write about the lives of women who, although they...
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...
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...
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...
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...