Publication: Air Power History
Publication Date: 22-JUN-05
Format: Online - approximately 811 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Author: Miller, Roger G.
Article Excerpt
Mario Calderara Aviator and Inventor: The First Italian Pilot Pupil of Wilbur Wright. By Lodovico Calderara and Attilio Marchetti. Translated by Lodovico Calderara. Trento, Italy: Museo Aeronautico "Gianni Caproni" di Trento, 2003. Illustrations. Photographs. Bibliography. Pp. 304. ISBN 88-87621-41-1.
Mario Calderara is best known to English-speaking readers as the student who Wilbur Wright distrusted because he was "a cigarette fiend." However, this volume by his son, a labor of love rather than a scholarly biography, reveals Calderara to be much more; he was a significant figure in early Italian military aviation.
Born in 1879, Calderara entered the Italian Navy in 1902, as an officer and engineer. The navy became interested in aviation as means of observation, and the young officer used that as...
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