Maristella Cescutti
July 23, 2021
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CODROIPO. A very long life that had exceeded the century that of Enore Quagliaro. An existence that ended at the age of 104 last Wednesday at the San Daniele hospital, where he had been hospitalized for a week due to the flare-up of a disease that had recently struck him.
Better known as the “aviator”, Quagliaro was first considered a pioneer and then an institution in Rivolto by the National Aerobatic Team.
On March 1, 1961 at the Rivolto airport, engaged as an aircraft engine technician (together with a dozen colleagues) after the transfer from the Istrana military airport, he helped to create the acronym “Pan” which distinguishes the special training, appreciated internationally.
From then until he retired Quagliaro had always followed the acrobatic team in all its performances in Europe. He was born on 12 April 1917 in Villalta di Fagagna, the penultimate of ten brothers, six boys and four girls.
At the age of 15 he left for Turin to go to work at Fiat. Giovanni Agnelli, given his remarkable skills, immediately included him in the sector of aircraft engines in Cr32s. In 1936 Quagliaro joined the Air Force.
“When the Second World War broke out I was in Gorizia; if war was declared on 10 June, the Fourth Wing of the Italian Air Force was already in Africa on 11 June “, he said in an interview with Giacomo Viola in 2009.
«From this period – recalls his daughter Patrizia – he always told anecdotes. He was present when the accident happened to Italo Balbo: he was on the ground, it was not even clear to my father how and what really happened on that occasion ».
Admitted to hospital, Quagliaro was saved from the accident that in Rivolto in 1968 cost the lives of seventeen technical colleagues: then a plane taking off crashed to the ground. A fact that nevertheless marked him, so much so that in 1972 he decided to retire.
The former Air Force technician was also a convinced Friulanist: he was the first municipal councilor in Fagagna of the Friuli Movement, then he dedicated himself to vines and the vegetable garden.
Father of two daughters Patrizia and Laura, grandfather of four grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren, he married in 1949 to Diletta Lucardi who died six months ago at the age of 94. A union that lasted 72 springs.
Strong-willed, precise, severe, a person of great faith, he had for years kept a daily diary in which he wrote down the events and the weather.
He lived in his house surrounded by the love of his daughter Laura and all his relatives without ever having a caregiver, he gave credit for his long life to his beloved wife. The last farewell is Monday, at 5 pm, in the church of Villalta di Fagagna. –
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