Alessandro Guidoni
Alessandro Guidoni served as a general in the Regia Aeronautica . Guidonia Montecelio, the small town and comune where he died while testing a new parachute, was named after him in 1937.
Guidoni was born in Turin, Italy, onJuly 1880. He obtained his degree in engineering at the Turin Polytechnic in 1903 and in 1905, while serving in the Navy Engineering Corps, took his second degree in naval engineering. In 1909 he developed a keen interest in the newborn Corpo Aeronautico Militare of the Regio Esercito , joining many aviation pioneers.
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