Ivo Boscarol
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| Born |
15 April 1956 Postojna, Slovenia |
| Residence | Ajdovščina, Slovenia |
| Occupation | CEO of Pipistrel |
| Years active | 1976 - present |
| Children | Taja Boscarol |
Ivo Boscarol (pron. Eevo Boscaról), born 15 April 1956, is the founder and CEO of Pipistrel, a producer of ultralight and light aircraft, based in Ajdovščina, Slovenia. Boscarol is most known as an aircraft designer and entrepreneur.
Boscarol was born in 1956 in Postojna, Slovenia, at the time also part of Yugoslavia. His father August Boscarol, a machine engineer, spent several young years as a test pilot at the Aermacchi, an Italian aircraft manufacturer. Family lived in Ajdovščina, a town in western Slovenia near which a small military airfield was located. After elementary and high school in Ajdovščina Boscarol studied economy at the University of Ljubljana. From 1976 to 1986 he was involved in publishing, owned a studio, in photography (official photographer at the Šentjakobsko gledališče theatre in Ljubljana 1976 - 1980), was an advertising manager of the student radio station in Ljubljana (1976 - 1978), a manager of several musicians and rock bands. Boscarol also organized several art photo exhibitions, including nudes. He introduced the badge concept and mass production to Yugoslavia, at the time unfamiliar in the country.
In the eighties of the past century the era of hang gliding and powered hang gliding arrived and Boscarol, though flying private aircraft of any kind was not legal, started an own private business, Boscarol studio, a small-scale production of motorized hang gliders, mainly for customers in the neighboring Italy. He had to test his prototypes, first hang gliders, later ultra-light airplanes, and to avoid too much attention he flew between dusk and darkness. The flying times and shape of the wings earned the aircraft the nickname "pipistrel", a word locals use in dialect for bat. It is derived from Latin Pipistrellus, the locals got it from the Italian pipistrello.
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