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THE EAGLE TAKES FLIGHT

IT WAS WHILE fighting alongside one another during the first world war, three Italian mates hatched a plan to launch a motorcycle company. And it was a pretty good plan, too. Carlos Guzzi, with an engineering background, would design the bikes, Giorgio Parodi would source the funds through his wealthy ship-broker father, while Giovanni Ravelli, a successful and popular racer, would look after the testing and the marketing.

Two of the three founders were members of the Italian Air Force. When Ravelli was killed during a test flight on 11 August 1919, instead of shelving the

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