Brigadier General of the Royal Italian Air Force. Recipient of the Gold Medal for Military Valor and martyr of the massacre of Fosse Ardeatine. After attending the military school of Nunziatella, he participated in the First World War and received several medals for bravery. After the war Lordì graduated in aeronautical engineering at the Polytechnic of Turin. In 1923, he served the Italian Air Force first in Libya at Castel Benito, near Tripoli, where the first military school for parachutists of the Regia Aeronautica was established. He remained in Africa from April 22, 1929 to May 10, 1933, during which time he also participated in some spectacular pioneering events in aviation (organization of the first collective parachute jumps in 1927, participation in the Rome-Turin-London flight in 1928, first flight over Tibesti, the highest mountain in the Sahara Desert) until 1933, when he was sent to China at the head of a military mission and became Chief of Staff of the Chinese Air Force. General Lordi managed to obtain several useful missions for Italy, but they were very poorly executed by Italy. He denounced these abuses and was subsequently sent first to a psychiatric hospital and then to internal exile because of his age limit of only 42 years.
Brigadier General of the Royal Italian Air Force. Recipient of the Gold Medal for Military Valor and martyr of the massacre of Fosse Ardeatine. After attending the military school of Nunziatella, he participated in the First World War and received several medals for bravery. After the war Lordì graduated in aeronautical engineering at the Polytechnic of Turin. In 1923, he served the Italian Air Force first in Libya at Castel Benito, near Tripoli, where the first military school for parachutists of the Regia Aeronautica was established. He remained in Africa from April 22, 1929 to May 10, 1933, during which time he also participated in some spectacular pioneering events in aviation (organization of the first collective parachute jumps in 1927, participation in the Rome-Turin-London flight in 1928, first flight over Tibesti, the highest mountain in the Sahara Desert) until 1933, when he was sent to China at the head of a military mission and became Chief of Staff of the Chinese Air Force. General Lordi managed to obtain several useful missions for Italy, but they were very poorly executed by Italy. He denounced these abuses and was subsequently sent first to a psychiatric hospital and then to internal exile because of his age limit of only 42 years.
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