Francesco Baracca facts
While investigating facts about Francesco Baracca Plane and Francesco Baracca Ferrari, I found out little known, but curios details like:
The Ferrari Prancing Horse logo originally decorated the plane of Count Francesco Baracca, Italy's top fighter ace of WWI. The badge was given to Enzo Ferrari after the ace was shot down by his mother, who said "Ferrari, put my son’s prancing horse on your cars. It will bring you good luck."
how did frances perkins die?
In 1923 Enzo Ferrari won a race in Ravenna where he met the Countess Paolina, mother of Francesco Baracca, an ace of the Italian air force who died during WW1 and used to paint a horse on the side of his planes .In his honor, Enzo Ferrari decided to take the rampant horse as his coat of arms
What was frances perkins famous for?
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Enzo Ferrari used the black horse emblem of famous WWI fighter ace Count Francesco Baracca as the logo for Ferrari cars
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Enzo Ferrari took the logo from an image of a red horse painted on the fuselage of Count Francesco Baracca, an ace pilot in the Italian air force and a World War I hero.
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Francesco Baracca, Italy's WWI top fighter ace whose horse emblem inspired Ferrari's iconic logo, is buried very close to my hometown. (I also took some pictures, album link in the first post)
