User:Italicoitaliano/Peter C. Rutelli

PETER C. RUTELLI di Villagrazia was born in Cheverly, Maryland.

He spent his childhood in College Park, in between the College Park Airport (the world's oldest continuously operated airport) and the University of Maryland, nurturing his passion for aviation. Peter inherited his vocational and artistic traits from his father Count Giovanni Peter Rutelli di Villagrazia Ph.D., a Professor Emeritus at the University of Maryland and U.S. Navy Scientific Consultant, and from his mother Countess Franca Leonilde Rutelli di Villagrazia Masnini de Cornati. He continues to carry on the legacy of his family, an old family of italian nobility which includes a legacy of several architects, industrialists, and sculptors within the last three centuries in Italy and prior to that, noble city administrators-councillors and prelates. His passionate abilities contribute to his desire to share his knowledge of flight: he believes that flying is an art that gives space to creativity.

Peter was trained in the U.S. as an aviator, and is a commercial single/multi-engine instrument rated pilot and a certificated ground/flight instructor with various related ratings. He has many hours of flight time in more than 25 different type - airplanes. He is proud of the flight instructors responsible for shaping and mentoring him throughout his career. A - U.S.A.F. Officer-Pilot, Col. Thomas Mc Knight, trained him to the private certificate up to the commercial program using military trainers like the T-41C and the T-34B aircraft. A - U.S. W.W.II Veteran, Joseph Susi, also instructed Peter not only in advanced aerobatic and -tail wheel- training, but even made him part of a true and still existing training legacy dating back to Orville and Wilbur Wright. Other professional Aviators and Flight Instructors, like Lt. Herbert Collins, James Artis, and several Others were also influential in his extensive training background.

Peter spent time in Italy studying the Humanities and then the Natural Sciences. He later volunteered and worked in Italy for a few years as a civilian among a Christian mission. Peter is an Officer, Flight Instructor and a Mission-Transport/Cadet Orientation Pilot for the U.S.A.F.- C.A.P., a member of the U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary, a member of -Pilots for CHRIST International-, and member of both the U.S. -National Association of Flight Instructors- (NAFI) and the -Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association- (AOPA); he is also a third degree Knight member of the -Knights of Columbus- Order.

He was trained to fly cargo with twin engine airplanes under FAR Part 135 operations in the U.S. western region; he has not only flown in the Delmarva region, but also in New Jersey, California, Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico, Kansas, and Oklahoma. He has been instructing also in the State of Maryland, teaching in various model aircraft; this is an addition to his time teaching in the eastern region of the U.S..

Peter is Grateful to the LORD, to his Parents, to his Country, Friends, and to All of Those Who positively contributed to his vocations, and wishes to Thank All of Them.