ServoFly T4/1, a 3D printed flight control device produced by Italian AM parts production service Aidro , enabled Mattia Negusanti to obtain his pilot license at the Fano airport, in Central Italy.

 

This is the first case in Italy, and perhaps in the world, in which a person who’d lost an arm in an accident obtains a license to pilot an ultralight plane, using a customized flight control produced via additive manufacturing.

 

Following the approval from the Aero Club D’Italia on the use of the ServoFly device, on August 3rd, Mattia took the VDS flight exam and passed it with excellent results. Today he can fly safely using only one arm. In 2015 after a severe car accident, Mattia reported serious injuries and hovered between life and death for about ten days. He was in an irreversible coma and received the extreme unction Christian sacrament on three different occasions. […]

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