Aboard the Cavour plane service, Moto Guzzi and the Italian Navy rejoice their shut ties, beginning with the eagle image

On the spectacular stage of the flight deck of the Cavour plane service, Moto Guzzi and the Italian Navy have celebrated the shut ties which have united them for multiple hundred years.

The spread-winged eagle, the unmistakeable emblem of Moto Guzzi because it was established in 1921, dates again to the army service of the corporate’s founders, Carlo Guzzi and Giorgio Parodi, within the Italian Royal Navy’s Aeronautical Arm in World Battle One. It was throughout the battle that the 2 buddies, and pilot Giovanni Ravelli, determined to enter motorbike manufacturing as soon as the battle ended. Ravelli was killed in an accident in 1919 and was unable to realize his dream. Guzzi and Parodi selected the Eagle as their image in reminiscence of their companion.

The occasion was an emotional event, which included the world preview of the Moto Guzzi V100 Mandello Aviazione Navale, a particular numbered limited-edition of the newest arrival within the Moto Guzzi household. A technology-rich motorbike made much more placing on this unique model uniting two nice names with indissoluble ties to the historical past of Italy.

The venture was made attainable due to Difesa Servizi S.p.A., an in-house firm of the Italian Ministry of Defence accountable for optimising the Division’s belongings over the past 10 years, which granted Moto Guzzi use of the “Aviazione Navale” mark for the manufacturing of the V100 Mandello Aviazione Navale.

Produced in a restricted version of 1913 numbered bikes, a tribute to the yr through which the aviation arm of the Italian Navy was fashioned, the unique Moto Guzzi V100 Mandello Aviazione Navale is a singular mannequin, beginning with its particular livery impressed by the Navy’s

F-35B fighter jets. The graphics are a trustworthy copy of these of the plane, with the insignia on either side of the cowl, along with the everyday “jet consumption” stripes. The livery is enhanced by a low-visibility tricolour rosette on the perimeters of the gas tank, the logo of the Italian Naval Aviation, and the emblem of the Boarded Plane Unit.

Normal options embrace a tyre strain monitoring system and heated handlegrips, whereas the serial quantity is laser etched on the handlebar riser. Every one of many bikes comes with its personal cowl and a commemorative plaque.

Moto Guzzi V100 Mandello

The Moto Guzzi V100 Mandello opens a fully new chapter within the firm’s historical past; it eludes typical categorisation, combining sensible efficiency with the vocation for journey that lies on the coronary heart of each Moto Guzzi two-wheeler.

This can be a Moto Guzzi like by no means earlier than, whose cutting-edge know-how and revolutionary technical and aerodynamic options open the door to the way forward for the model. The V100 Mandello is an revolutionary bike beginning with the design which, as all the time, enhances the distinctive, inimitable twin-cylinder engine. Traces that eschew nostalgia, providing a contemporary tackle the important thing parts of the Moto Guzzi stylistic idiom. A watershed within the model’s historical past, the bike introduces many vital technological improvements: the primary two-wheeler with adaptive aerodynamics, the primary Moto Guzzi mannequin to characteristic a six-axis inertial platform, ABS cornering, semi-active suspensions and a fast shift, to call simply a very powerful.

The V100 Mandello can be the primary Moto Guzzi bike powered by the brand new compact-block engine with subtle technical traits. Custom is maintained by the 90° V-twin structure, which ensures Moto Guzzi’s distinctive torque supply and inimitable sound, however the venture is totally new and presents impressively sensible efficiency: energy of 115 hp and torque of 105 Nm, with 82% already obtainable at 3,500 rpm.

Naval Aviation

Italy’s Naval Aviation – Aviazione Navale – is the air part of the Italian Navy, created to function at sea in shut contact with its ships. Its origins date again to 1913, when the Aeronautical Service of the Royal Navy was formally fashioned.

The Navy’s aviation models are at present headed by the COMFORAER Air Forces Command, which is accountable for the organisation and coordination of the actions of all of the Navy’s plane, together with upkeep, administration of logistics infrastructure and coaching for flight and floor personnel.

Its fixed-wing plane and helicopters are boarded on vessels geared up with hangars and a flightdeck, on amphibious assault models and on plane carriers.

For the reason that Eighties, Italy’s Naval Aviation has been concerned in all the primary worldwide operations.

The Cavour plane service

The Cavour (CVH 550) is a brief take-off and vertical touchdown plane service, constructed by Fincantieri. It entered service for the Italian Navy in 2009.

With an LOA of 244 metres and 220 metres of runway, the Cavour is the Italian Navy’s flagship, and one of the vital technological investments of the nation’s nationwide defence system.

The Cavour is ready to board and function with all of the plane utilized by the Italian Navy: helicopters (AB 212, EH 101, NH 90), AV-8B plane and latest-generation plane resembling

F-35B fighters.

The flight deck extends from bow to stern with a runway parallel with the service’s longitudinal axis and a ski-jump, to make sure that plane can take off with the utmost payload. The hangar is designed to carry as much as 12 helicopters or, alternatively, 8 plane. Dealing with operations between the hangar and the flight deck are managed by two 30-tonne elevators. The Cavour is manned by a hard and fast crew of 550 sailors and may accommodate as much as 1,200. 

Difesa Servizi S.p.A.

Difesa Servizi S.p.A. is the in-house firm of the Italian Ministry of Defence accountable for managing and optimising the Division’s belongings. In the marketplace, it gives companies for a wide range of nationwide and worldwide stakeholders.    

Because it was established in 2011, the corporate has met the necessity for innovation and promoted the distinctive values of the Italian Armed Forces, working in a multiplicity of sectors by means of meticulous financial administration of the defence belongings and companies entrusted to it.     

Difesa Servizi S.p.A. presents a spread of products and companies resembling financial administration of actual property and belongings, excluding disposal; environmental optimisation of army models for the manufacturing of vitality from renewable sources; promotion and financial administration of the operations and companies supplied to 3rd events by the Armed Forces within the meteorological, well being, merchandise, geo-cartographic, aerial and satellite tv for pc images sectors; model optimisation by means of the non permanent paid concession of the logos, denominations and distinctive indicators of the Armed Forces; promotion and invoicing of technical actions and companies, together with these regarding the Ministry’s industrial and manufacturing actions, for which a particular mandate has been conferred on nationwide and worldwide our bodies in the private and non-private sectors.

Established in March 2010, it started operations within the second half of 2011.