So it's evening, and after another long working day, it's nice to seat at the officer's club and, sharing a drink with other flyboys, starting to explain why I started such a strange activity...
Why 1:1 scale parts of airplanes?
I wanted to have the 'real' sensation of a piece, the real dimensional sensation of being close to warbirds.
I wanted to explain to young people the sense of History starting from a fragment, a relic.
I studied the life of our Ace Francesco Baracca, and the cavalry, the close comparation between ancient heraldics (hoplite shields for example), medieval heraldic and wwI warbirds, was really
impressive.
I loved that gentleman :-) and I know that after a battle often he went on the ground looking for the pilot and the plane he had destroyed, he took a part of the plane, mainly the vertical rudder...
and he visited in hospital survived pilots.
So Francesco Baracca is the very beginning of my passion.
What I make is to honour and to remember him and all the young people that flyed in a war to bring us back Peace.
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