Not only flight
    During the frequent competitions, which are held during the spring/summer period, with friends, we share also other moments and experiences (nice and bad). Going to dinner at the evening, after another emotional experience, is even nicer and brings more harmony amongst the group. This harmony is essential for a team that has to face a long competition, and it allows to have time to relax and find enthusiasm to face with grit another day of flight.

    The dinner is, normally, the most relaxing moment of the day: when "the feet are under the table" , we talk about flight of course (seen that there are all pilots at the table) but not only about that. Each pilot talks about his own experiences of life, work, friends, girlfriends or boyfriends, wife/husbands.

    There is always someone who has the natural capacity to catch the attention of the present persons enjoying them with some anecdotes which are sometimes true and sometimes only true at 50% or even completely invented, or maybe they give descriptions on technical matters.

    The ones who have had the occasion to sit at the same table of Angelo Crapanzano or with Ignazio Bernardi, knows of what I am saying. Those two put together will carry you away and involve you in their "tete a tete".

    In these occasions, Ignazio is the one that provokes launching the challenges to Angelo. The challenges can be of technical-scientific matters or just "interrogations" of a story of free flight; Ignazio says a year, for example 1979, and Angelo has to describe an experience (of flight), which needs to catch the attention of the present pilots (Angelo is a master in these things).

    In one of the last competitions, besides the stories of Crapanzano and the "comedies" of Ignazio, we all had the possibility to appreciate also the poetic capacities of Ignazio. The adaptation, to the free flight pilots, of some of the poems of Giuseppe Ungaretti, made spark off the hilarity of all the present pilots. It is surely Ignazio who knows how to keep the spirit of the pilots high.

Soldati (di Giuseppe Ungaretti) o
Deltaplanisti (di Ignazio Bernardi)
Si sta come
d'autunno
sugli alberi
le foglie.

Ed e subito sera (di Giuseppe Ungaretti)
Ognuno sta solo sul cuor della terra
trafitto da un raggio di sole:
ed e subito sera.

Ed e subito sera (di Ignazio Bernardi)
Ognuno sta solo agganciato al suo delta
trafitto da una debole termica:
ed e subito in terra.


    With this I only would like to recognise to these two friends, qualities that goes beyond their pilot skills. Their helpfulness towards the other pilots and their desire to keep the team united, also out of the flight environment, deserve without doubt the recognition of all those who have the luck to have them close to them.