Oliver Andre Rosto A Life Dedicated To Aviation Tis is the fantastic story of the life of a norse-american aviator. He was born in Hemne (Norway) in 1881 and immigrated to the USA (Duluth, Minnesota) in 1902, where he started to work as a mechanic in a world dominated by a new invention: the automobile. But he soon got interested in engines and was eager to construct his own aircraft to become one of a new breed: an aviator. He managed in 1913 to fly his own designed and built monoplane, the Rosto Monoplane, off the ice of Lake Superior in Duluth and from there on his life was dedicated to aviation. He gave up his job as automobile mechanic and moved to New York, where he started to work for Curtiss and the U.S. Navy as an aircraft and engine inspector. During the 1920s he was plant manager of Ericson Aircraft Ltd in Baltimore, before he began his twenty-five-year career in the Civil Aeronautic Authority in 1928. At the age of 71 he was still not interested in giving up aviation and started to work for the Aircraft Engineering & Maintenance Company – AEMCO, a subsidiary of the famous Transocean Air Lines. Tis company was owned by Orvis Nelson, a man with Norwegian roots as well and also coming from Minnesota. Tere existed many myths around Rosto’s life and the author has managed to check them all. Te story here has been presented in an easy to read way without losing an eye for details. It is also a look into the development of aircraft inspection as it developed between 1928 and 1952. He made his last flight in a jet trainer at the age of 87! Rosto died in 1972 at the age of 90. He certainly had a life dedicated to aviation. Rob J.M. Mulder, the author, has published five aviation books and this is the fourth in the series called “A Piece of Nordic Aviation History”. 112 www.europeanairlines.no
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