Return of the Astore A new Tecnam Light Sport model gets an old name B Y A LT O N K . M A R S H 50 | AOPA PILOT September 2014 | PHOTOGRAPHY BY CHRIS ROSE IN THIS COUNTRY IT WOULD BE A "GOSHAWK," but in Italy the mountain bird of prey is an "astore" (pronounced uh STORE' eh). That's what two Italian brothers named their first airplane after first building models as kids during World War II, keeping their passion for flying intact despite devastation all around them-including their bombed home. Today one of them, Luigi Pascale, is the head designer at Tecnam and that is how the Astore, Tecnam's new luxury Light Sport aircraft with an all-metal airframe, got its name.