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| The square with San Floriano's statue | The oldest vine in the world : more or less 400 years |
MARIBOR
DEDICATES AIRPORT TO EDUARDO RUSJAN
Slovenia celebrates
flight pioneer who was forgotten in Gorizia, his hometown
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| The square with San Floriano's statue | The oldest vine in the world : more or less 400 years |
| The remodelled
airport of Maribor/St.Janez, second most important city of Slovenia. Will
be given a new name in memory of flight pioneer Edi Rusjan. In November
1909, the pioneer could fly at a certain height with a plane constructed
by himself. He did all this in +IBw-Campagnuzza+IB0-, a place where now there
are military practices. To remember Eduardo Rusjan, a big plaque was attached
on Maribor+IBk-s airport. Uncovering of the +IBw-plaque+IB0- will be done by
Grazia Rusjan, direct nephew of pioneer. After that, there will be a photographic
exhibition on pioneer of Friul, in particular to two flight pioneers, Eduardo
and Giuseppe Rusjan. This exhibition will be organised by Mario Muti and
Vili Princic. They will use a lot of historical and archaeological material.
Maribor airport will be baptized and after that, there will be an aerial
meeting with participation of acrobatic squadrons coming from 11 different
countries. What did the Rusjan brothers was like a familiar saga. Edi studied
aerodynamics. With the help of his brother Pepi, he constructed aircrafts.
Their sister Luisa used to help them sewing canvas for covering wings of
the aircraft. All this was done without much help because they couldn+IBk-t
get the projects of brothers Wright, other flight pioneers, who already
fly before. It was a very hard job, but fortunately they received help
from various institutions of Gorizia. Grazia Rusjan is very happy for the
attention Yugoslavia and Slovenia give to her uncle+IBk-s work. She said:
+IBw-The memory of my uncles has been conserved for one hundred years by
Slovenia and I a very proud of this. But anyway I would like this to be
more equilibrated: I would like my uncles to be remembered in Italy too.
My family could appear Slovenian, but it was also Italian. They used to
speak Italian at home and they used to write in french...Of these two extraordinary
persons, something is missing in my hometown Gorizia!+IB0-
Sandro Scandolara - Il Piccolo, 13.6.2008 |
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Eda 1 model hung in the hall of Maribor's airport