Luciano Belviso: «Flying higher than common sense»

“Only if you quit prejudices and fears, your dream can take flight. Word of Luciano Belviso, someone who knows a lot about flights – and above all about dreams: it’s him, entrepreneur and aerospace engineer, the fourth protagonist of Dreamers.Onthe project Porsche Italy dedicated to well-known faces and ordinary people who have opened new paths, imagining the future and going where no one before them had ever gone. «The biggest obstacle, for a dreamer, I think is common sense».

“Because common sense he’s nostalgic of the past, the terror of the future and never think to the present,” adds the manager from Puglia in the interview published on the platform dreamerson.porscheitalia.com. “We need to hear each other instead free to give space to emotions, to imagination, to intuition. The difference between goal and dream? The distance: the first, in fact, is close, while the second has a longer horizon, therefore it requires more energy and the ability to view where do we want to go”.

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A route, like the one that he scanned Belviso’s life: after completing his studies between Paris, Lausanne and Turinat the age of 25 he returned to Puglia and – together with the partner Angelo Petrosillo – founded Blackshape Aircrafta company specializing in the creation of ultralight aircraft from touring: the dream of designing one with a unique design, with high performance and low consumption, first translated into one of the Italian startups most innovative ever, then into a reality leader in the sector.

«I think that everyone can choose to be guided by a dreambut it takes the will to follow him», concluded the entrepreneur, also a member of the Space Generation Advisory Councilposing on the dance floor alongside a Porsche Panamera E-Hybrid. “What do I recommend to make it happen? Educationbecause it is necessary to prepare to metabolize what you are doing, humilitybecause we must give without arrogantly asking, e visionbecause we must never be satisfied and always raise the bar».

Three fundamental elements, for fly higher than common sense.

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