RISANO'S RUNWAY HISTORICAL SIGNS
The Risano's runway, situated among
Lavariano and Risano and belonged to the military property, is used as
airstrip, as per a convention stipulated with the local governement of
Mortegliano.
The runway, long over 1 Km, it is one airstrip of those done build from
the Austria-Hungary Emperor Francesco Giuseppe, between Trieste and the
west plain of Gorizia, to the beginning of the First World War. These
landstrips overcame the hundred and they served to guarantee the aerial
superiority to the empire; in the developments of the conflict, they
passed then under the Italian command.
The landstrip of Risano, in the Italian chessboards, resulted to be a
structure of support to the Saint Maria la Longa's airstrip, distant
some Kms and center of the First Airplanes Group; in the adjacent spaces
the runway of Risano, were present all the necessary infrastructures.
During 1917, a notable increase of traffic was had on these fields, that
it culminated in August with the XI Battle of Isonzo river. Stopped the
conflict and up to 1936, year when some aircrafts departed for the
military campaign of Ethiopia, over Lavariano there practically was not
more aerial activities, except in April of 1941, during a crisis period
with Yugoslavia
Toward the end of the Second World war, the area was requisition by the
Luftwaffe, that used her/it to try a last resistance to the allied
advance. During the retreat, the Germans didn't do in time to destroy
the surface of the runway. If the effects of the time are neglected, the
mantle of the runway is practically maintained intact.
In the preceding months at the end of the war, the runway of Risano was
used by allied aerial departments; on the runway one day landed the
commander Eisenhower, become then the 34th President of the United
States.
From the years '50 the whole area has been abandoned, but thanks to the
Fly Synthesis the runway is taking back life.
Some historical images of the
Risano's runway:
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Risano's runway, click
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