{"id":16107,"date":"2025-03-31T08:45:26","date_gmt":"2025-03-31T07:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brigatafolgore.net\/?p=16107"},"modified":"2025-04-06T06:55:59","modified_gmt":"2025-04-06T05:55:59","slug":"un-tricolore-da-record-paolo-filippini-sfida-il-cielo-di-ferrara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brigatafolgore.net\/en\/a-record-breaking-tricolour-paolo-filippini-challenges-the-sky-in-ferrara\/","title":{"rendered":"A Tricolour Record: Paolo Filippini Challenges the Sky in Ferrara"},"content":{"rendered":"

Saturday 12 April<\/strong> will be a date destined to go down in the history of parachuting. At the Aeroclub of Ferrara, also home to the Ferrara Parachute School, a spectacular event will be staged: the launch of the largest flag ever flown by a parachutist, a good 3300 square metres of tricolour<\/strong> Italian.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Attempting the feat will be Paolo Filippini<\/strong>, Lieutenant Colonel of the Italian Army on leave<\/strong>already effective at Parachute Training Centre<\/a>a multiple world skydiving champion, who will be joined by the team from the local skydiving school for technical and logistical support. The main launch will be preceded by a symbolic descent with a 1600 m2 flag, already used in the past by Filippini, to test the weather conditions and ideally pass the baton to the new, mammoth version.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The flag, made of an ultra-lightweight technical fabric, will be attached to a specially designed tandem parachute to support about 130 kg<\/strong>the tricolour alone. During the flight, two parachutists from the school will take video footage to document every stage of the event: from take-off to deployment in the air, to the descent to the ground.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Paolo Filippini, class of 1961, originally from the province of Siena<\/strong>has been living for four years in Chain of Quarrata<\/strong>in the province of Pistoia, thanks to the love that led him to move there. He is a true legend of international skydiving. On his palmar\u00e8s:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  • 11 times Italian Individual Champion<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • 7 World Team Champion titles<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • 2 individual World Champion titles<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • 2 individual world records<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • 4 CONI Gold Medals for Athletic Valour<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • 2 Gold Crosses of Merit of the Army<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • 1 Gold Star for Sporting Merit of the International Military Sports Council<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

    An extraordinary career that contributed to writing indelible pages of military and national sport.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    On 12 April, in Ferrara, the whole of Italy will be able to admire his next feat: an immense tricolour, suspended between heaven and earth, which will become a symbol of courage, pride and passion<\/strong>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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