Aeronautic Society Italia, Rome Section

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Founded at Rome, 3 Mar. 1904, when its first statutes (bylaws) were adopted, the Societa Aeronautica Italiana (SAI) was one of the 8 national organizations that met in Paris 12-14 Oct. 1905 to put together the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI). From the beginning, it appears the SAI functioned as a local organization in Rome and as a national organization for Italy. In 1905, sections were formed in Turin (SAI Sezione di Torino) and Milan (SAI Sezione di Milano) and by then the local effort in Rome was the SAI Sezione di Roma. Both the sede central (headquarters) and the Rome section shared the same address. According to its 1906 statutes, the SAI consisted of founding members and in autonomous sections based in Rome and other cities of Italy (though none were named), with a central department (Direzione Centrale or DC) resident at the headquarters (Sede Social) in Rome. The president of the Rome section served as the general president of the SAI who, along with delegates from each section, comprised the DC. In 1909, there appear to have been new bylaws and the DC was renamed the Consiglio General (CG) or General Council. The CG included delegates from the SAI, the Societa Italiana di Aviazione (SIA), the Touring Club Italiano, and the Automobile Club d'Italia.

Regolamento or regulations of the Sezione di Roma published in 1906 indicate that members who approved the SAI's original statutes on 3 March 1904, as SAI's founding members, are honorary members of the Rome section and pay no dues and that those who have been part of the Rome section since 1905 pay a reduced annual fee for membership. Balloon ascensions began in 1904. The Regolamento della Sezione Roma, or regulations, published in 1906, show that the Rome section has a sports committee and a technical committee. The fact that the technical committee was responsible for the balloon stores suggests that such stores were owned by the Rome section and not by SAI's central department. It is not clear whether the library in Rome was owned by the central department, the Rome section, or both. There were said to be 136 members in Rome in 1907. The president in 1910 was Luigi Roux and there were nearly 150 members. Alberto Santos-Dumont was a member and so was a John Jay White of New York. In 1911, the SAI dissolved and was reconstituted as the Aero Club d'Italia, and the SAI Sezione di Roma became the Aero Club di Roma.

The "Regolamento per la Coppa Aeronautica 'Regina Marherita di Savoia per il passaggio delle Alpi in aerosato," published by the SAI, apparently in 1906, mentions the SAI DC in Rome as well the sections in Rome, Turin, and Milan.

Affiliated with FAI, 1905, 14 Oct.; Society as a whole was founding member

  • Address: Corso Umberto I. 397, Rome (at least 1906-1907); 70 Via Della Muratte, Rome (1907-1911)
  • Phone: 21-18 and 81-04 (at least 1910-)

Sources

  • Conférence Internationale d'Aéronautique Proces-Verbaux, Oct. 12-14, 1905
  • FAI Conférence Statutaire Proces-Verbaux (1906-1910)
  • SAI, Statuto Sociale (1906); SAI, Regolamento della Sezione di Roma (1906)
  • Pocket-Book of Aeronautics 443-444 (Eng. Ed., Jan. 1907)
  • 1:5 Aeronautics (NYC) 44 (1907)
  • 1:6 Aeronautics (NYC) 38 (1907)
  • 13 Almanacco Italiano 526 (1908)
  • 1908 Intl Motor Cyclopaedia YB Geog. Trade Dir. 203, 220
  • 1909 Motor Cyclopaedia YB 110 Misc.
  • ACA annuals (1908-1912)
  • 1910 Annuario dell' Aeronautica Primo 317-330 and 340-343
  • "Flight" Manual 14 (Sept. 1910); 1910 Brockett 61, 783
  • Aéro-Manuel 1911 271 (1 Oct. 1910)
  • 1911 Hazell's 488
  • 1911-1912 Annuario dell' Aeronautica 390-393, 405-406 (Sept. 1911)
  • National Union Catalog Pre-1956 Imprints
  • WorldCat.org and WorldCat-OCLC
  • http://www.aeci.it/storia; http://coni.it/index.php?id=145


Organization names Italian Aeronautic Society, Section Rome; Societa Aeronautica Italiana, Sezione di Roma
Entity type
Country Italy
City Rome
Affiliated with FAI
Scope Local
Started aero 1904
Ended aero 1911, redesignated Aero Club di Roma
Keywords
Key people Luigi Roux, Alberto Santos-Dumont, John Jay White
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