Calle de la Aviación Española

The name pays tribute to Spain’s military aviation. The Calle de la Aviación Española runs between Avenida de Filipinas and Calle de Andrés Mellado, inside an estate built with housing for Air Force commanders and officers. The houses came first and the street sign afterward, like a surname for a neighborhood already marked by the uniform. In those years Spanish aviation carried a string of feats behind it. In 1926 the Plus Ultra crossed the Atlantic from Palos de la Frontera to Buenos Aires, and Lóriga and Gallarza linked Madrid with Manila. In 1928 Juan de la Cierva crossed the English Channel in his autogyro, the rotary-wing craft he had invented himself. And in 1933 Barberán and Collar vanished on the final leg of their Seville-to-Mexico flight, after having crossed the ocean.