Five biplanes dive down into their targets. The head of the group noses up and makes a full loop, while the others fringe off while turning upside down, only to dive down once more. Their trajectories criss cross those of other planes of the formation: it is the 8th of June 1930 and la bomba — the  bomb, a figure bound to become legendary, is performed for the first time.  

The Pattuglia Acrobatica Nazionale (PAN), was born in 1961, in Rivolto, at the very heart of Friuli Venezia Giulia and only a handful of miles from the  Campoformido airport where, in 1928, the idea that acrobatic flight was to be  part of military pilots’ training originated. Only through aerial acrobatics they could gain the mastery, sensibility and coordination needed in all flying situations.