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Ten. Col. Pierluigi Poletti. Website. Italian Air Force Museum. The Italian Air Force Museum is an aircraft museum at Vigna di Valle, on Lake Bracciano (Lazio), in central Italy. It is operated by the Aeronautica Militare. The museum's collection has an emphasis on Italian machines and seaplanes. While maintaining the technical and historical ...
The Italian Air Force (Italian: Aeronautica Militare; AM, lit. 'military aeronautics') is the air force of the Italian Republic. The Italian Air Force was founded as an independent service arm on 28 March 1923 by King Victor Emmanuel III as the Regia Aeronautica ("Royal Air Force"). After World War II, when Italy became a republic following a ...
The Gianni Caproni Museum of Aeronautics ( Italian: Museo dell'Aeronautica Gianni Caproni) is Italy 's oldest aviation museum, [ 3][ 4][ 5] as well as the country's oldest corporate museum. [ 3][ 6] It was established in 1927 as the Caproni Museum ( Museo Caproni) by Italian aviation pioneer and aeronautical engineer, Giovanni Battista "Gianni ...
Italian. Known for. Airpower theories, a key proponent of strategic bombing. General Giulio Douhet (30 May 1869 – 15 February 1930) was an Italian general and air power theorist. [1] He was a key proponent of strategic bombing in aerial warfare. He was a contemporary of the air warfare advocates Walther Wever, Billy Mitchell, and Hugh Trenchard.
Air Force Flight Test Museum, Edwards Air Force Base; Alameda Naval Air Museum, Alameda; Allen Airways Flying Museum, El Cajon [36] Aviation Museum of Santa Paula, Santa Paula [37] Blackbird Airpark, Palmdale [38] Boron Aerospace Museum, Boron; CAF Southern California Wing WWII Aviation Museum, Camarillo [39] California Science Center, Los Angeles
Website. Official website. Volandia Park and Flight Museum is the largest Italian aeronautical museum, as well as one of the largest in Europe. Volandia displays over 100 aircraft. The museum covers an area of ca. 60,000 m 2 (645,000 sq ft) [1] of which 20,000 m 2 (215,000 sq ft) are indoors. [2] It opened in 2010, after a 10-year preparation ...
Contents. Structure of the Italian Air Force. The article provides an overview of the entire chain of command and organization of the Italian Air Force as of 1 January 2018 and includes all currently active units. The Armed Forces of Italy are under the command of the Italian Supreme Defense Council, presided over by the President of the ...
The Royal Italian Air Force (Regia Aeronautica Italiana) (RAI) was the air force of the Kingdom of Italy. It was established as a service independent of the Royal Italian Army from 1923 until 1946. In 1946, the monarchy was abolished and the Kingdom of Italy became the Italian Republic, whereupon the name of the air force changed to Aeronautica ...