The most important aeronautical and / or aviator events are here mentioned, held in Italy or abroad, which have always greatly stimulated the sensitivity towards flight that usually accompanies every aerophilatelist. These are various kind of events where there were also aerophilatelic implications: aerostatic rallies, air shows, exhibitions and / or cultural events.
2023 – Aerostatic Exhibition at Palazzo Sormani
On 24 March 2023, in Milan, at the Sormani Library, in Corso di Porta Vittoria 6, in the Sala del Grechetto, a documentary exhibition will be inaugurated on the history of flight in Italy, starting from the first balloon experiments of the second half of the XVIII century. A particular in-depth analysis is dedicated to…
2022 – The Military Geographical Institute
The Military Geographical Institute turned 150 this year. To commemorate this event, a stamp was issued in which the very detailed maps of the Institute are depicted in the background and in the foreground a plane from the 1930s intended for photogrammetric surveys. The origin of today’s Institute is parallel and consequent to the birth…
2023 – “PAPER WINGS” exhibition
The first cultural initiative, which actually opened the celebrations for the Centenary of the Italian Air Force was the “Wings of Paper” exhibition, inaugurated on 15 October 2022 and which will remain open until 19 February 2023, hosted at the Historical Rooms of Palazzo Aeronautica in Rome (open with free admission to the public every…
2022 – Brugherio 2022 – The fresco of the virtues in a balloon
In the sacristy of the church of Santa Maria Assunta in Grumello de ‘Zanchi, a hamlet of Zogno, in the province of Bergamo, you can admire a unique fresco of its kind, namely the Allegory of Virtues, better known as The Virtues in a balloon, work of the painter Vincenzo Angelo Orelli (born in Locarno…
2022 – Centenary of the first air crossing of the south Atlantic
On March 30, the Portuguese post office worthily commemorated the centenary of the first air crossing of the South Atlantic, between Portugal and Brazil, through the issue of a splendid series of three I20g stamps, corresponding to a nominal value of 1.05 euros. and a 3.00 euro block of paper. The first air crossing of…
2022 – Bergamo – 50th anniversary of the first line flight
On July 16, 1970, the Company for Bergamo Orio al Serio Civil Airport (SACBO) was established at the Bergamo Chamber of Commerce, an act that concluded a long process that had begun two years earlier to give life to the business of civil aviation on the pre-existing military airport, dating back to 1939. Exactly one…
2021 – Eighty years ago “Pearl Harbor”
On December 7, 1941, Japan unexpectedly attacked, without declaration of war, the American naval base of Pearl Harbor, in the archipelago of Hawaii, where the Pacific fleet was based, allowing the United States to overcome all internal resistance to the official entry into World War II. Eighty years have passed since that day and that…
2021 – Teramo’s exhibition on D’Annunzio in Fiume
Our member Alessandro Pratesi, one of the members of the Scientific Organizing Committee of the exhibition, sent us a report of the splendid initiative, which took place in Teramo with a wide consensus from the public, experts and authorities, on 8-23 October 2021, which we gladly share, also for the many aeronautical themes connected to…
2021 – ALITALIA – ITA AIRWAYS
Our national airline was in the past a giant of global air transport, not so much in numbers but in the prestige it has built and maintained over its long and splendid life, before its inevitable decline. The service on board with the legendary cuisine of the first class, the excellent training of the pilots…
2021 – The Frecce Tricolori (Tricolor Arrows) turn sixty
This year marks the sixtieth anniversary of the Frecce Tricolori. An important milestone, which must be seen as a result of the entire Air Force and must be a pride for the entire country. Over the years, the Group dedicated to aerobatic flight has been able to express, in perfect harmony, high technology, professionalism and…
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