Nerio festa, 50, a sculptor and de-signer, learned to fly in Italy, in 1980. The runway was grass and the airplane a four-seat Robin taildragger with a stick control. He soloed in 4.3 hours in what he described as a different time in a different country. There was some background history, too. Nerio's father flew in the Italian Air Force in World War Ⅱ and last flew a P-51 as commander of the Cagliari airport in 1957. After he got his license, Nerio didn't fly for nine years, until he had moved to California and found two airfields near the litde town where he lives. Then, "I decided that I could not spend much more time on the ground looking up at every sign of airplane noise."
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