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Concerned about Italy's decrepit highways and bad economy, Enrico Piaggio refocused the family company on the future transportation needs of the Italian masses. He built a prototype of a small motorcycle used by parachutists and known as the MP5, or ?Paperino??? (Italian for Donald Duck). But Piaggio was not satisfied with the design, so he asked Corradino D'Ascanio, an aeronautical engineer who had designed one of the first modern helicopters, to overhaul it. D'Ascanio hated motorcycles and quickly transformed the MP5 into a revolutionary scooter based on airplane technology. The vehicle had a single steel chassis...
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