Pomilio planes were one of the most important
types of reconnoisance machines over the italo-austrian fron during the first
World War.
Ottorino Pomilio graduated in engineering at Naples and attended to the advanced
School of aeronautics of Paris. As a pioneer pilot, he completed many raids,
achieving some world records. In 1916-1917, he founded in Torino the Pomilio Airplane
Factory, to manufacture Savoia-Pomilio aircraft. In 1918 it branched into the
" Indianapolis Pomilio Brothers Corporation" along with his siblings
Vittorio and Alessandro -who as Italian supply officer from Italy for the U.S.
worked towards a standardization of the allied aviation material- . Vittorio,
pilot of seaplanes, was lieutenant during the war and was decorated with the
Silver and bronze medals to military valour .
Pomilio Bros. was invited by the U.S. government to prepare ten of their
machines for military use, but the design was half finished by the end of WW1.
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