I CIRCUITO AEREO-BRESCIA

From Globoils.com Courtesy of Franco Giuseppe Livotto, 2-29-07

 

Left to right: Calderara, Da Zara, Savoja, Cagno and Cobianchi at Brescia Circuit - 1909 From the book: Pionieri dell'Aviazione in Italia. Courtesy of Giovanni Giorgetti, 2-26-07

 

From Globoils.com Courtesy of Franco Giuseppe Livotto 2-29-07

 

Aerocurvo of Ponzelli - Miller From the book: Pionieri dell'Aviazione in Italia. Courtesy of Giovanni Giorgetti, 2-26-07

 

The Brescia Aerial Circuit From the book: Pionieri dell'Aviazione in Italia. Courtesy of Giovanni Giorgetti, 2-26-07

 

RECOMMENDED READING

The Air Show at Brescia, 1909   Peter Demetz   Product Details Cloth: 254 pages; 6 x 7 1/2 inches List Price: Used, $0.45 Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002 ISBN: 0-174-10259-7

Description: from the frontispiece      In 1909, municipal authorities built an airfield in northern Italy and invited the world's leading aviators to compete on it. The show attracted thousands of spectators--among them Giacomo Puccini and Gabriele d'Annunzio--and reporters, including, amazingly, Franz Kafka, Max Brod, and Luigi Barsini. The Air Show at Brescia, 1909 is Peter Demetz's sparkling account of what happened in the air and on the ground before, during and after this amzing moment at the dawn of the modern age.

 

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