{"id":30108,"date":"2025-05-16T07:48:32","date_gmt":"2025-05-16T07:48:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tecnam-redesign.qwstaging.com\/?p=30108"},"modified":"2025-06-02T09:58:36","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T09:58:36","slug":"in-ricordo-di-jack-zanazzo-in-loving-memory-of-jack-zanazzo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tecnam.com\/in-ricordo-di-jack-zanazzo-in-loving-memory-of-jack-zanazzo\/","title":{"rendered":"In ricordo di Jack Zanazzo \/ In loving memory of Jack Zanazzo"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00c8 con profondo rispetto e sentito dolore che ricordiamo la vita del nostro amico, Giovanni Battista Zanazzo<\/strong>, affettuosamente conosciuto da tutta la comunit\u00e0 aeronautica come Jack<\/strong>, scomparso il 14 maggio 2025, all’et\u00e0 di 87 anni.<\/p>\n

Jack, dopo aver frequentato l’accademia dell’aeronautica militare a Nisida<\/strong> (Napoli) \u00a0Corso Rostro, quello dei Capi di Stato Maggiore Mario Arpino e Andrea Fornasiero, \u00e8 stato il pi\u00f9 giovane pilota \u201cTop Gun\u201d della Nato nonch\u00e9 pilota sperimentatore al reparto sperimentale di volo.<\/p>\n

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Prof. Luigi Pascale – Jack Zanazzo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Istruttore di volo per molti anni, alcuni trascorsi anche a Dubai, dal 1966 al 1968\u00a0\u00e8 stato pilota delle \u201cFrecce Tricolori\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0 con il nome Pony 11<\/strong> e nel 1968 fu solista insieme a Renato Ferrazzuti: il duo diede vita a figure acrobatiche spettacolari mai pi\u00f9 replicate negli anni successivi.<\/p>\n

\u201cJack\u201d ha fatto anche parte per due anni della prima pattuglia acrobatica civile italiana, le \u201cAlpi Eagles\u201d, fondate all’aeroclub \u201cArturo Ferrarin\u201d di Thiene nel 1979 e denominata \u201cAquile delle Alpi\u201d e, come collaudatore, ha svolto un ruolo fondamentale nel collaudare il \u201cG91Y\u201d della Fiat, detto \u201cYankee\u201d. Per oltre vent\u2019anni ha eseguito prove di volo di velivoli autocostruiti o ultraleggeri per il mensile VOLARE , quasi sempre in coppia con l\u2019amico e collega Fabrizio Bovi.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Qui il ricordo del suo amico Fabrizio Bovi:<\/h3>\n

PONY 11<\/h2>\n

\"\"Voleva fare l\u2019aviatore. E lo ha fatto alla sua maniera, lasciando nell\u2019azzurro una scia di leggenda.<\/p>\n

Con cloche, manetta e pedaliera ha segnato un\u2019epoca del volo irripetibile, nella quale uomini e macchine davano lealmente il meglio di s\u00e9, senza infingimenti.<\/p>\n

Per Jack l\u2019Aviazione \u00e8 stata assai pi\u00f9 di una smisurata passione per il volo: era un crogiolo di valori e di ideali non negoziabili, e per questo non era facile al compromesso. Ma dietro la scorza di guerriero nascondeva una generosit\u00e0 senza limiti come il cielo che i suoi occhi indagatori puntavano fin da ragazzo.<\/p>\n

Nella sua infanzia nel \u2018Triangolo del Ci\u00f2\u2019 qualsiasi trabiccolo andava smontato e rimontato per comprenderne il funzionamento. La sua insaziabile curiosit\u00e0 si spingeva oltre le macchine volanti;<\/em> dietro a ciascuna di esse, diceva, a ogni latitudine e longitudine ci sono storie da sapere e uomini con cui intendersi. Il suo ardimento, contenuto nella perfetta misura del rischio, era frutto dello studio scientifico e della conoscenza dei limiti umani. Da grande aviatore sapeva guardare oltre l\u2019orizzonte per coglierne i segnali premonitori. Il suo vanto era di non avere mai perso un gregario.<\/p>\n

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Enzo De Blasio Jack Zanazzo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Aerei ed elicotteri per Jack non avevano segreti; li valutava a colpo d\u2019occhio e li domava fin dal primo volo.<\/p>\n

La sua vita \u00e8 un diario di avventure. In Pattuglia gli riservarono il posto speciale di secondo solista,\u2018Pony 11\u2019<\/strong>, privilegio concesso a lui solo. Pi\u00f9 giovane Top Gun della NATO, primo alla scuola francese dei piloti collaudatori. Ovunque si richiedessero il suo talento e la sua esperienza, lui c\u2019era: dalla Sperimentale ai poligoni di tiro, dai deserti d\u2019Arabia alle Ande peruviane. All\u2019estero creava team acrobatici dall\u2019impronta italiana e dalla parlata veneta. Ha conquistato la fiducia di sceicchi, strabiliato il Bourget con manovre aeree che nessuno aveva osato, dato vita alla pi\u00f9 bella squadriglia civile di aquile da voltige. Ha volato con tutto, mai sazio di provare e sperimentare. Spento il reattore ha donato il suo sapere alla rinata aviazione leggera, prodigo di consigli, senza cedimenti e senza nulla chiedere.<\/p>\n

Per settemila chilometri, volando a pelo d\u2019Africa, ha portato un aeroplanetto missionario fino al Ciad. Il suo inseparabile Custode non poteva che essere un Angelo Pilota speciale come lui.<\/p>\n

Ora insieme collaudano nuove nuvole e disegnano arcobaleni in formazione stretta.<\/p>\n

Ciao Aviatore, autorizzato al tuo decollo senza limiti.<\/h3>\n

 <\/p>\n

ENGLISH<\/strong><\/h2>\n

It is with deep respect and heartfelt sorrow that we remember the life of our friend, Giovanni Battista Zanazzo<\/strong>, affectionately known to the entire aviation community as Jack<\/strong>, who passed away on 14 May 2025, at the age of 87.<\/p>\n

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Jack, after attending the Air Force Academy in Nisida (Naples)<\/strong> Corso Rostro, that of Chiefs of Staff Mario Arpino and Andrea Fornasiero, was NATO’s youngest \u2018Top Gun\u2019 pilot<\/strong> as well as an experimental pilot at the experimental flight department.<\/p>\n

A flight instructor for many years, some of which he spent in Dubai, from 1966 to 1968 he was a pilot in the \u2018Frecce Tricolori\u2019<\/strong> under the name Pony 11<\/strong> and in 1968 he was a soloist together with Renato Ferrazzuti: the duo created spectacular aerobatic figures that were never repeated in the following years.<\/p>\n

\u2018Jack\u2019 was also a member for two years of the first Italian civil aerobatic patrol, the \u201cAlpi Eagles\u201d, founded at the \u201cArturo Ferrarin\u201d aeroclub in Thiene in 1979 and named \u201cAquile delle Alpi\u201d (Eagles of the Alps) and, as a test pilot, he played a key role in testing Fiat’s \u201cG91Y\u201d, known as the \u201cYankee\u201d. For over twenty years, he performed flight tests of self-built and ultralight aircraft<\/strong> for the monthly magazine VOLARE , almost always in tandem with his friend and colleague Fabrizio Bovi.<\/p>\n

Here is the memory of his friend Fabrizio Bovi:<\/h3>\n

PONY 11<\/h2>\n

He wanted to be an aviator. And he did it his way, leaving a trail of legend in the blue.<\/p>\n

With stick, throttle and pedal, he marked an unrepeatable era of flight, in which men and machines gave their best loyally, without pretence.<\/p>\n

For Jack, aviation was much more than a boundless passion for flying: it was a melting pot of values and non-negotiable ideals, and for that reason it was not easy to compromise. But behind the warrior’s exterior hid a generosity as boundless as the sky that his inquiring eyes had been pointing at since he was a boy.<\/p>\n

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Jack Zanazzo – Paolo Pascale<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In his childhood in the \u2018Triangle of This\u2019 any contraption had to be taken apart and reassembled to understand its workings. His insatiable curiosity went beyond flying machines; behind each one, he said, at every latitude and longitude there are stories to be known and men to be understood. His daring, contained within the perfect measure of risk, was the result of scientific study and knowledge of human limits. As a great aviator, he knew how to look beyond the horizon to catch its premonitory signs. His boast was that he never lost a wingman.<\/p>\n

Planes and helicopters held no secrets for Jack; he assessed them at a glance and tamed them from the very first flight.<\/p>\n

His life was a diary of adventures. In Patrol he was given the special position of second soloist, \u2018Pony 11\u2019, a privilege granted to him alone. NATO’s youngest Top Gun,<\/strong> first at the French school of test pilots. Wherever his talent and experience were required, he was there: from the Experimental to the firing ranges, from the deserts of Arabia to the Peruvian Andes. Abroad, he created acrobatic teams with an Italian flair and a Veneto dialect. He won the trust of sheiks, astounded the Bourget with aerial manoeuvres that no one had dared, and created the most beautiful civil squadron of eagles to fly. He flew with everything, never satiated with trying and experimenting. Switched off the reactor, he donated his knowledge to the reborn light aviation, prodigal with advice, without giving in and without asking for anything.<\/p>\n

For seven thousand kilometres, flying over the hair of Africa, he flew a missionary small aeroplane all the way to Chad. His inseparable guardian could only be a special Pilot Angel like himself.<\/p>\n

Now together they test new clouds and draw rainbows in tight formation.<\/p>\n

Good bye Aviator, cleared for your take-off, no restrictions.<\/h3>\n

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