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The Italians were nothing if not determined to have a presence at WAC XVIII. First there was a major policial turmoil to overcome, tremendous logistical concerns, then Sergio Dallan, their lead pilot strained a foot in an unrelated training accident, and was be unable to fly. As Luca Salvadori notes at the bottom of the page, the effort paid off: the Italian mens' team placed fourth at WAC XVIII.

Team Italia

Team Italia Photo: Luca Salvadori

Team Italia '96 poses prior to leaving for Oklahoma City.

Pilots

The 1996 Italian Aerobatic Team members:

Ruggero ROSSINI Photo: Luca Salvadori.

Ruggero ROSSINI - Age 39, married, 5 sons. Profession: Industry Director. Aircraft: CAP-231EX F- GNCF "Charlie Fucsia".

• Italian Unlimited Champion, 1995

Sergio DALLAN Photo: Luca Salvadori.

Sergio DALLAN - Age 51, married, 2 sons. Profession: Pilot, Aeronautical Chief Controller. Aircraft: CAP-21DS (Experimental) I-SIVM "Silver Chicken".

• 14 times Italian Unlimited Champion
• Italian 4-Minute Freestyle Champion, 1995

Andrea FOSSI Photo: Luca Salvadori.

Andrea FOSSI - Age 42, married, 2 sons. Profession: Industry Director. Aircraft: CAP-231 F-GGYQ;

Fabio VIVIANI Photo: Luca Salvadori.

Fabio VIVIANI - Age 40, married. Profession: M.D. Dentist. Aircraft: CAP-231EX F-GNCF "Charlie Fucsia".

Irene PASINI Photo: Luca Salvadori.

Irene PASINI - Age 40, single. Profession: Financial Promoter. Aircraft: Z50LS I-DRAW. The only female pilot of the Team.

Gianfranco CILLARIO Photo: Luca Salvadori.

Gianfranco CILLARIO - Age 52, single. Profession: Industry Director. Aircraft CAP-231 F-GGYZ. (Reserve Pilot).

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Team Italia Aircraft

The Silver Chicken Photo: Luca Salvadori

Sergio Dallan's one of a kind CAP21, the "Silver Chicken", which was an experimental development of the CAP20 that presaged the CAP231.

Charlie Fucsia Photo: Luca Salvadori

CAP-231EX "Charlie Fucsia" of Italian Unlimited Champion 1995, Ruggero Rossini, here piloted by his fellow pilot Anelo Vancini. F- GNCFwhich is one of only 6 CAP231's build with a Walter Extra wing. Matt Chappman of the United States team is also flying a CAP231EX.

Gianfranco Cillario Photo: Luca Salvadori

Gianfranco Cillario in his CAP-231EX flying over Venice on the way back from WAC 94 in Debrechen.

Italia takes Fourth at WAC XVIII! (from Luca Salvadori)

Maybe no one has noticed it under the bright light of the winners, but Italy has scored 4th place in Male Teams ranking. Team score has been composed by individual results of Fabio VIVIANI (28th overall), Renzo VOCERI (41st overall) and Andrea FOSSI (42nd overall), flying respectively CAP-231EX and CAP-231. Fabio VIVIANI also was awarded 10th overall in program #2 (Freestyle), surpassing many other seasoned pilots.

This achievement is the best so far in WAC history for Italy, and is very important if you consider that the top-scoring teams (Russia, France and USA) are largely composed by aerobatic professionals with plenty of resources and time to practice, as well as the best aircraft on the scene. Italian Team, meanwhile, is composed by peoples with their own work, devoting only their free time to aerobatics: key factor this year has been the practice period (2 weeks) spent by the Team in Duncan - OK before the Contest, where all pilots flew 3 or 4 flights per day under trainers' eye, steadily improving quality of flight and physical fitness toward the goal.

Also, Italy has been the 3rd among European Teams: a good passport to EAC'97, confirming the bright Bronze Medal of EAC'93 in Grosseto. Thanks to all friends, both in Italy and in USA, which helped Italian Team to be so successful at XVIII World Aerobatic Championships. Hope to do even better...

Find other details on Italian Aerobatic Team Home Page

http://aeroweb.lucia.it/en/sports/iat/index.htm lsalv@aeroweb.lucia.it

Luca Salvadori
Team Manager
Italian Aerobatic Team

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