Airplanes are splendid dreams. A presentation by Luca Cottini (PhD)
* March 15, 1909. W. Wright completes in Rome the first ever engine-operated flight on Italian soil
* The birth of Italian aviation (1909). The Montichiari circuit and the Italian aviation society
* The path of an outsider Gianni Caproni. From Munich & Liege to Milan
* From Taliedo to Cascina Malpensa. The birth of military aviation.
* Opening a way in the sky. The humble audacity of flight pioneers. The value of experimentation and failure.
* Flying is a splendid dream. Airplanes and cultural imagination (literature, painting, cinema)

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