"Un'aquila nel cielo" (An eagle in the sky) by Giorgio Evangelisti - Editoriale Olimpia S.p.a. - 1999, Firenze, Photos & translation courtesy of Giovanni Giorgetti, 8-31-06 |
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Malpensa (Varese); September 1914. Mario de Bernadi is seated 4th from the left, in the second row. Antonio Locatelli is seated on the left in the front row. |
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Torino 1917. De Bernardi suill'Ansaldo A.1 - Balilla - col quale ha stabílíto íl record mondiale di altezza senza ossígeno salendo a 7250 metrí dí quota ín 40 mínutí. La persona a terra a destra è íl pílota Francesco Almerígí, dírettore del campo dí volo dell'Aeronautíca Pomílío. Torino (Turin) 1917. De Bernardi on the Ansaldo A.1 - Balilla - set the world record for height, without oxygen, climbing to 7.250 meters of altitude in 40 minutes. On the ground is the pilot Francesco Almerigi, director of the Aeronautica Pomilio airfield. |
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ad uno SPAD VII: 1° Costantini, 4° Ruffo di Calabria, 5° de Bernardi, 7° Novelli. 1918 - Group of pilots of the 91st Fighter Squadron, in front of a SPAD VII: 1st Costantini, 4° Ruffo di Calabria, 5° de Bernardi, 7° Novelli. |
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Mario de Bernardi with his wife Maria Vittoria and their doggy Lalà. |
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Un’aquila nel cielo di Giorgio Evangelisti Product Details Cloth: 21,0x29,0 - 208 pp. Language: Italian List Price: € 38,73 Publisher: Editoriale Olimpia S.p.a. - 1999, Firenze Codice 501903 |
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l'argomento Excerpt from the Editoriale Olimpia website Il 26 novembre 1926, il più famoso pilota collaudatore italiano dell’epoca, Mario de Bernardi, vinceva a Norfolk una fase della gara internazionale di velocità per idrovolanti ideata nel 1912 dal pioniere e grande industriale francese Jacques Schneider e che da lui prese il nome di Coppa Schneider. Da quel giorno Mario de Bernardi, nel mio intimo più profondo, nel mio animo di inesperto ma ardente diciottenne, divenne un idolo. Un idolo da onorare e, semmai, da imitare.................... Description: Translation courtesy of Giovanni Giorgetti November 1926, the most famous Italian test pilot of the age, Mario de Bernardi, gained at Norfolk a phase of the international contest of speed for seaplanes devised in the 1912 from the pioneer and French great magnate Jacques Schneider and that from him taken the name of Schneider Trophy. >From that day Mario de Bernardi, in my intimate deepest, in my inexpert but burning mind of eighteen-year-old, became an idol. A idol to honor and, just in case, to imitate... The enterprises of my then idol (who with the passing of time became the Italian test pilot more eclectic and versatile of all times) followed without pause: in 1928 he exceeded the 500 Km/h on a seaplane; in 1931 he won at Cleveland the contests of high acrobatics; in 1934 he carried out raid Milan - Moscow non stop, in 1940 tested the first Italian jet plane.... De Bernardi knew to distinguish himself also in front of the dead: to die well is difficult, but he did it with dignity and in legendary way. As the friend Evangelisti has rightly written he lived and disappeared in the myth and his dead can be compared to that of a Homeric hero.... General S.A. Silvio De Giorgio |
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