INTRODUCTION TO AEROMEDIA

The Aeromedia cultural association was established in 1993 to explore the new creative opportunities offered by the information technology to the various aspects of the aerospace communication.

Aeromedia was given, for a period, the task of producing a series of brochures and manuals for the Federazione Italiana Volo Libero (Italian Free Flight Federation), with responsibility for all production phases from concept development to text, graphics and images implementation. Aeromedia also supplied photographic material for Volo Libero (Free Flight), the Federation's monthly magazine.

In the same period, Aeromedia began its collaboration with Gruppo Amici Velivoli Storici, another no-profit association, in photo and video coverage, editing of exhibit illustrated placards and production of posters, stickers and postcards. In May 1995 Aeromedia, with the support of Centro Studi Baskerville in Bologna, established on Baskerville/Flynet BBS an area entirely devoted to the activities of GAVS. Some months later the GAVS web site was also created.

In September 1995, thanks to Centro Studi Baskerville, Aeromedia entered directly the Internet world, with the initial development, in a non-profit environment, of the first Italian aerospace information web-site. Franco Vercelli was acting as webmaster and Luciano Bertolo as chief editor. From its outset, the Aeromedia web-site was conceived as a bi-lingual e-zine, illustrated with original pictures from the Aeromedia photographic archive, one of the more comprehensive in Italy.

The following year, on behalf of the Politecnico di Torino, Aeromedia took care of the on-line coverage for the "Missions to the Outer Solar System and Beyond" symposium organized by the International Academy of Astronautics (IAA) and for the annual SETI - Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence meeting. The same activity was successfully performed in 1986.

In 1997 Aeromedia web-site was enriched by the "Aerospace Events Calendar" page, with the list of the forthcoming air shows and aviation meetings with particular attention to those planned in Italy.

In 1999, the Aeromedia web-site introduced a new page devoted to the Italian Civil Air Register news. In the following months, two more features improved the site coverage. Directly from Aeromedia home-page it was possible to enter the Italian Aerospace Directory, containing full address listing, and the Press Releases area, with a selection of information and pictures coming from various organizations worldwide.

From January 2002 Davide Raineri took over the demanding task of Aeromedia webmaster.

From 2010 to 2015 Aeromedia offered the "Desktop Calendar" with original photos for every months of the year.

During the 2015-2025 period the chief editor, together with Gianni Siccardi, were deeply engaged to produce Europa Tour 1971 book, re-enactment in aviation style of their adventurous journey in nine countries of the Old Continent exploring with their cameras sixty airports. In the same period he started to collaborate with a number of aviation magazines and thematic wen-sites in Italy and abroad.

In 2025 the conditions were favourable to restart the updating of the web-site. In the occasion the "Italian Aerospace Directory" page was deleted because all the sector companies have provided to set up their own presence in the web.

Thirty years after its inception, the on-line aviation community, both in Italy and abroad, find on the Aeromedia web which is formed by more than 7200 files (more than 1700 texts and 4500 pictures). Other interesting features of Aeromedia web-site include as a selection of more than 1300 press releases and some 400 original articles, the calendar of the main international aviation and space events and, in the "Aeromedia Photo Gallery", more than 3000 original aircraft pictures.

Turin, January 2025