Word: spad
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With its dignified rooms, passing from grand to aedicular scale and back again, Palazzo Grassi is an excellent place to look at art. The show has art and a good deal else, including such totems of futurist affection as a 1911 Bleriot monoplane and a World War I Spad hanging from the cortile roof, and a vintage Bugatti by the canal entrance, to remind one of Marinetti's belligerent and much quoted dictum that "a roaring motorcar that seems to run ( on shrapnel is more beautiful than the Victory of Samothrace...
...celebrated flyers of the Lafayette Escadrille. When a headline later reported "HOBEY" BAKER, STAR OF GRIDIRON, IS NOW AN AMERICAN "ACE," no one was surprised. The astonishment came in France about a month after the shooting had ended. Baker, his orders home tucked in his tunic, took a repaired Spad up for a test flight. It crashed, and "the finest damn flier in the air," as his fellow aviators called him, entered the record books for the final time: the last man in his squadron to be killed...