604 pp. - 128 tables with b/w ill. - format cm 21x29.7 - hardbound in colour - printed 2009
series "Meeting History"
Italian text
ALSO AS FREE BOOK (class B)
ISBN: 978-88-85335-94-3
PIONEERS OF AVIATION IN ITALY 1908-1914
with update notes, with references to the Catalogue of "Aerofilia italiana", and errata by Fiorenzo Longhi
The work written by Mario Cobianchi, pioneer of Italian aviation, has been updated and enriched thanks to the several comments and the errata, included as foot notes, by Fiorenzo Longhi, one of the masters of Italian Aerophilately.
The volume by Cobianchi, published in 1943 and difficult to be found since long, "encyclopaedia" about the pioneering period of flight in Italy, is rich in information and documents gathered by the author himself, rare and historical illustrations of air tracks, drill grounds, postcards and photographs, flight attempts and experiments, aviation competitions and shows, flight forerunners, aircrafts.
It describes, day by day, all the aviation events of the pioneering period, whose end is internationally fixed in 1914, with dates and names of flight competitions, pilots and winners, flight licences of Italians, both military men and civilians, position in Europe, aircraft building factories, heroic experiments, pioneers' accidents (unfortunately some deadly).
CONTENTS
Foreword
* 1908-1909 - Today, we will fly
* 1910 - The beginnings of aviation in Italy
* 1911 - The Italian military aviation starts gaining ground
* 1912 - The fervent aviation activity for the war in Libya
* 1913 - The great flights
* 1914 - The wonderful air trips
* 1904-1914 - The different aviation activities