He arrived discreetly from Toulouse.
He arrived discreetly from Toulouse. The flight from France to Barajas airport took 55 minutes and was parked in entrance of terminal T4 on the morning of March 29. Recent from the Airbus meeting plant, shiny new, Iberia's most fashionable Airbus 320 will start passenger flights within the coming days. This would not have rather more historical past if it weren't for the truth that, along with the registration quantity EC-NZP, the corporate's new aircraft has its personal identify: María Pepa Colomer, a pioneer who's returning to the skies 92 years after acquiring her pilot's title.
The quilt of the Notas Gráficas part of La Vanguardia on January 22, 1931 had a singular protagonist: María Josefa Colomer. The photograph caption stated that "he had brilliantly obtained the title of pilot-aviator on the Escola d'Aviació Barcelona, de l'Aeròdrom". The younger pilot appeared wearing a white, grease-stained frog, together with her arms in her pockets and subsequent to one of many biplanes she discovered to fly. On the age of 18, she had grow to be the primary Catalan and the fourth Spanish girl to get her wings.
Stressed since childhood, Mari Pepa's first flying expertise was a bounce with an umbrella from the household residence, on a second ground. The umbrella broke, as did each of his legs. He didn't return there, though learning on the Institute of Tradition and In style Library of the Dona boosted his curiosity in flying. He was impressed by the American pilot Amelia Earhart, 16 years older and maybe probably the most well-known aviator of all time. Endorsed by her father, Josep Colomer, and secretly from her mom, Maria Encarnació, Mari Pepa started to obtain classes on the faculty directed by Josep Canudas, who was satisfied that the will to fly was not a a passing whim however an genuine vocation, which is why she grew to become a scholar of each Canudas and Josep Maria Carreras, two pioneers of Catalan aviation. In eight months and with 60 hours of flight he received the title. Mrs. Luque formally discovered that she had an aviator daughter when the photograph printed in La Vanguardia appeared.
Colomer wished to proceed gaining expertise and enhancing his abilities: he devoted himself to doing aerial baptisms from El Prat and his story impressed the second native pilot, Dolors (Lolita) Vives. Within the spring of 1931 he was in charge of one of many planes that flew over Barcelona celebrating the institution of the Second Republic. She spent on a regular basis she may within the air and in 1935 she grew to become the primary Spanish flight teacher. With former aviation professors and different skilled colleagues, he based the primary aerial work cooperative within the nation and the Catalan aviation faculty.
Through the Civil Conflict he skilled new pilots for the forces of the Spanish Republic, made propaganda flights, liaison, coastal surveillance and a few wounded evacuations. Within the final months of the battle, he went into exile in France together with his buddy and mentor, Josep Maria Carreras, whom he later married and had two youngsters with. In a primary stage they lived in Toulouse and settled in England. Carreras labored as a pilot for William Maxwell Aitken, banker, media magnate and minister to Winston Churchill.
20 years in the past, in March 2003, on the request of businesswoman and pilot Mercè Martí, the overall secretary of Sport of the Generalitat held an occasion in tribute to Mari Pepa Colomer and Dolors Vives. In Getafe and Madrid there are streets paying homage to Colomer. In Barcelona, close to the previous Sagrera freight station, a small backyard was named after him. In Prat de Llobregat, the character is remembered with the Pepa Colomer, a faculty heart for youngsters, major and secondary. Mari Pepa Colomer avenue can be an airport street, which passes by the again of the Iberia upkeep hangar, an airline that now remembers it with a brand new A320 Neo, a mannequin that normally covers the air bridge with Madrid, and the VIP ready space of Aena's T1 was named the Colomer room years in the past. With all this, the circle closes, since every little thing is within the Barcelona airport space, which occupies the identical land the place this pioneer discovered to fly.
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