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FROM THE 
FLYING PIONEERS BIOGRAPHIES 
OF HAROLD E. MOREHOUSE

GIUESEPPE M. BELLANCA
Pioneer Aviator - Renowned Plane Manufacturer
0 1971 - 8

[[photo of Giueseppe M. Bellanca]]

Giueseppe M. Bellanca was born in Sciacca, Italy March 19, 1886, where he attended Sciacca public and high schools. Following this he graduated with a B.A. degree in Engineering form the Technical Institute of Milan, Italy, and in 1910 became Professor of Industrial Mathematics at the Royal Institute of Milan.
Bellanca first became interested in aviation in 1906 and made an intensive study of its early period. In 1908-1909 he and two associates built a two-seat pusher biplane in Milan with a Zust motor. Bellanca attempted to fly it at Baggio, Italy on September 8, 1909 and promptly wrecked it, but strangely enough his parents encouraged him to continue, and that fall through 1910 he built a tractor biplane at the Taliedo Aeordrome.
In 1911 the Bellanca family arrived in the United States and settled in Brooklyn, New York, leaving his second plane behind. Totally absorbed in aviation young Bellanca immediately spent all his time at the Long Island flying fields and that fall began to build his third machine, a small parasol monoplane with a 3 cylinder 30 H.P. Anzani engine, with the aid of his parents and brothers in the basement of their home in Brooklyn. 
With this plane Bellanca taught himself to fly, without assistance, at Mineola during 1912. In September, 1912 he formed the Bellanca Aeroplane Company and Fly-