Hello, I introduce myself as usual.
I was born in 1952 in Bergamo, Italy Emigrated to Switzerland in 1952.
Primary school Secondary school Studies (6-year course) as a mechanical engineer, graduated in 1974.
Naturalized Switzerland in 1979.
Then builder of automatic assembly machines (line) until my retirement, when I was 63 years old.
Legal age in Switzerland is 65 years old.
Plus a technical director cap.
Becoming Swiss forced me to do my military service, something I escaped by being Italian
. I was able to choose my assignment, and saw my good test results during recruitment.
In Switzerland we have a militia army. I was a militiaman, 3 weeks a year in the flag, salary guaranteed by the loss of earnings.
A real vacation!!! I chose aviation out of laziness because I knew that we took it easy.
No grueling walk, a bit anyway, but the instructors were demanding, zero accident is the absolute rule, again and again. Above all, we were asked to prepare the planes very well for the missions and to receive the plane on the way back.
Checking the machine, refueling, etc. It was nice, the pilots were nice. In short, it was interesting.
Ah yes, the planes were Mirage IIIS and RS. Great machines it must be said.
Pilots loved these machines. We were told that airplanes were flying machines, not airplanes.
Problem of understanding (perhaps) because our senior officers were very often German speaking.
The only flaw of these Mirages was the complicated maintenance.
This has been demonstrated with the F5. Plane (machine) less nice than the Mirage, says a pilot.
I left military service when the F5 tiger was introduced.
I discovered xplane by chance. As I am curious by nature, I saw by dismantling xplane planes that I could also make them. I have been making planes for 7 years.
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