RICARDO PONZELLI 1885-1943

Ricardo Ponzelli & Wife - 1910 from the Associazione di Cultura Aeronautica delle Marche website Association of Aeronautical Culture of Marche Courtesy of Lucio Lucci,.the president of ACAM, 11-28-05

 

	Circuito Aereo-Brescia 1909	Aercurvo	Buenos Aires	Gallery

 

BIOGRAPHICAL BRIEF from the book EROI E PIONIERI DELL'ALA (HEROS AND PIONEERS OF THE WING) Enea Grossi - Milano - 1934 Courtesy of Giovanni Gorgetti, 11-29-05      Nato a Jesi (Ancona) il 6 febbraio 1875.      Conseguė il brevetto (n. 9) di pilota dell'Aero Club Argentino a Buenos Aires il 1° giugno 1910, dopo essere stato allievo nella Scuola Voisin al Campo di Chalons (ottobre - dicembre 1909), dove aveva conseguito il brevetto di pilota.      Fu il primo aviatore che compė il primo volo nel cielo dell'America del Sud, con il suo biplano.      Progettō e fece costruire a Torino dall'ing. Franz Miller un monoplano "Aerocurvo" che fu poi rilevato da Leonino Da Zara.      L'aereo compė dei piccoli voli sul campo corse di Mirafiori (Torino) ma, per mancanza di fondi, furono abbandonate le modifiche e l'aereo fu smantellato.      Caratteristiche dell'aereo: apertura alare m 7, superficie alare mq 22, peso massimo al decollo kg 250, motore Miller da 50 cv.      Pioniere dell'Aeronautica Italiana.

 

Translation courtesy of Giovanni Giorgetti, 11-29-05      He was born in Jesi (Ancona - Italy) on February 6, 1875. He earned his pilot's license (number 9) from the Argentinean Aero Club in Buenos Aires on June 1, 1910, after having been a pupil in the Voisin School at the Field of Chalons (October - December 1909), where he had earned his pilot's license.      He was the first aviator who flew in the sky over South America.

He designed and then had the engineer Franz Miller build the "Aerocurvo" monoplane in Turin which then was taken from Leonino Da Zara.      The airplane managed a few small flights on the racecourse of Mirafiori (Turin), but proposed modifications were abandoned for economic reasons and the airplane was dismantled.      The dimensions of the airplane were: wing span 7 meters, wing surface 22 sq. m , maximum take-off weight 250 kg, a Miller engine of 50 CV.      He was a Pioneer of Italian Aviation.

ONLINE RESOURCES - 1      It was my friend Giovanni Giorgetti who alerted me to this very valuable website which you will find cited immediately below. In fact, it was he who gained permission from its president, Lucio Lucci, for us to use selected materials from the site for this page. If you read Italian, you will be well rewarded by visiting the homepage of the site and taking advantage of its many offerings. If not, I suggest that you use the BabelFish program to obtain an English version.

PONZELLI RICARDO      This page on the Associazione di Cultura Aeronautica delle Marche website offer, in Italian, a very comprehensive biography of Ponzelli, well illustrated with three photographs. You can access the page in Italian by clicking on the title above.      You can produce an English version of the homepage by clicking on: English Version      From that point, you can follow the links to access the Ponzelli page, as well as to sample some of the other features of the site, such as Who We Are, Historical Events, Biographies of Pilots, Balloonists and Technicians, Aeronautical Facilities such as Airports, and many more.. Admittedly, the machine-translated version is a bit difficult to follow, but it is possible to gain a lot of information with just a little extra effort.

 

RECOMMENDED READING

EROI E PIONIERI DELL'ALA Dizionario Biografico dell'Aeronautica Italiana "Biographical dictionary of the Italian Air Force"   by Enea Grossi   Product Details Cloth: 122 pages; Publisher; Milano Arti Grafiche Fratelli Magnani - 1934

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The book is for sale directly by the author at the price of 15 Euro + postal charges. Giorgio Giorgi Via Aleardi, 13 56010 Marina di Quosa (Pi) Italy email: magodellavvio@libero.it

 

by MARIO COBIANCHI EDITORIALE AERONAUTICO - ROMA - VIA RIPENSE 1 OFFICIO DEPENDENTE DAL MINISTERO DELL' AERONAUTICO 1943 from Pionieri Dell' Aviazione In Italia

 

 

Carlo del Prete died in 1933.

 

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