For almost one hundred years, from the flight of Mario Calderara, the first Italian pilot, to the extraordinary Eurofighter, the European plane of the third millennium, men and machines have made «Italian wings» famous all over the world. This is the engrossing telling of a story that starts one misty morning in 1909 on the outskirts of Rome, on the field of Centocelle, and unwinds through the entire twentieth century amidst enterprises, failures, records and wars.It is a gallery of personalities, famous and less famous, who made a fundamental contribution to the development of aeronautics, and not only in Italy. We find designers such as Caproni, Marchetti, Rosatelli, and Gabrielli, pilots like Baracca, Ferrarin, De Pinedo, and Agello, and commanders like Italo Balbo. And we discover, above all, the thousands of men who, at all levels and in all roles, have devoted their work, intelligence, and talent to Italian civilian and military aeronautics. Without forgetting those extraordinary “artists” who, with the Frecce Tricolori, continue to amaze and enrapture crowds watching the skies the world over.