Background
He was born in Caltanissetta, Sicily, and studied in the Politecnico di Torino and in Aachen, Germany under Theodore von Karman.
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Giuseppe Gabrielli
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He is famous as designer of numerous Italian military aircraft, including the Fabbrica Italiana Automobili Torino G.50 and G.55 World World War II fighters. Gabrielli began his work as designer at Piaggio, but was soon called to Fabbrica Italiana Automobili Torino by Giovanni Agnelli to lead his aeronautics section. Gabrielli was awarded the Ludwig-Prandtl-Ring from the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Luftund Raumfahrt (German Society for Aeronautics and Astronautics) for "outstanding contribution in the field of aerospace engineering" in 1967.
He died in Turin in 1987.
Achievements
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Gabrielli designed 142 aircraft, all bearing his initial, including the G.50, the G.55 (one of the best fighters in World World War II), the G.80 (one of the first jets designed in Italy), the Aeritalia G.91, which won a contest for a North Atlantic Treaty Organization standard fighter in the 1950s, and the G.222, a military transport airplane, whose design was later evolved into the C-27J Spartan (with the addition of new engines and new avionics to the airframe).
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Born
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Italy