with his brother in 1949 while an assistant at the Naples University Aeronautical Construction Institute. At age 88 he is still there to test-fly every airplane—Tecnam makes slightly more than one a day—and assure it has the control harmony he demands. Tecnam still builds tailplanes for the ATR 42/72 airliner, and has built panels for Douglas and Boeing in the past, proof that Pascale must be doing something right. AOPA EMAIL alton.marsh@aopa.org www.aopa.org/pilot AOPA PILOT | 61http://www.aopa.org/pilot