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Jun 2022
4m 32s

09 - Aldo Bonassoli, the oil sniffing pl...

STUDIO MINUIT
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Nothing predestined Aldo Bonassoli, an Italian farmer and science enthusiast, to be at the heart of a French state scandal. However, with his Belgian associate Alain de Villegas, he meets Jean Violet, a French lawyer with an important political network, and thus marks the beginning of a rather unusual engineering adventure. Indeed, Bonassoli and de Villegas have for project the development of a device which embarked on a plane is able to detect oil deposits from the air.

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