The Flight over Vienna was an air raid during World War I undertaken by Italian poet and nationalist Gabriele D'Annunzio on 9 August 1918. With 11 Ansaldo SVA aircraft from his team, the 87ma squadrig
Gabriele D'Annunzio in the front seat of an Ansaldo SVA-9 before the flight.
Lion of St. Mark displayed on most of the Ansaldo SVA aircraft on the raid
Italian leaflets dropped over the center of Vienna (St. Stephen's Cathedral is visible in the upper right corner with the Graben street below)
The Gianni Caproni Museum of Aeronautics is Italy's oldest aviation museum, as well as the country's oldest corporate museum. It was established in 1927 as the Caproni Museum by Italian aviation pione
Gianni Caproni (left) in the early 20th century.
A panoramic view of the main exhibition hall of the museum.
Another view of the main hangar: on the left foreground, the only surviving fuselage of a Fokker D.VIII.