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Silvio Pettirossi
On June, 16, 1887, in Asuncion, Silvio was born of the Italian citizen Antino Pettirossi and the Paraguayan noblewoman Rufina Pereira Roldàn.
He will become the biggest personality in Paraguayan air force. He was the third last son of the couple: he had three elder brothers and sisters (Alfredo, Elvira and Delia), and two younger sisters, Honorina and Luisa.
The pre-military lyceum in Spoleto (Italy) accepts Silvio when he is 7, as befits a scion of a noble Italo-American family.
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In 1901, when he is 14, Silvio comes back to Asuncion in order to continue his secondary school. In this period he has his first approach to flying: with some friends, he builds a do-it-yourself parachute and throw himself from a tree, getting many grazes and reproaches from his father, who opposes Silvio’s passion.
In 1904 the revolution broke up, and Silvio, who is 17 only, enlists in the army, earning