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...
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...
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:...
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...
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...
AMALIA ERCOLI-FINZI, “MOTHER” OF THE ROSETTA SPACE PROBE
Writing about Amalia Ercoli-Finzi on our blog is a huge honour. As an airline company, we look up to her brilliance in the field in which we operate. As human beings, we are grateful for her contribution to progress and innovation. As women, we...
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...
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...
AMY JOHNSON
To fully understand how important Amy Johnson’s venture was considering that she was born back in 1903, we need to first think about the historical context. For the United Kingdom, the year 1918 represents the year of women’s suffrage, which was granted only to...
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...