Airline Ratings by Grazia Vittadini has always loved aircraft and loved to build balsa models as a child growing up in Milan but now it is eco aircraft with aerospace giant Airbus. When she grew up in Italy and the US, she aspired to become a fighter pilot with the Italian Air Force. “They wouldn’t take females then, but I applied anyway”, she says laughingly in an interview with Airlineratings.com Vittadini studied Aeronautical Engineering and specialized in Aerodynamics in Milan, then took a job with the Italian side of the Eurofighter consortium. In 2002 she joined Airbus in Germany and quickly rose on the corporate ladder.