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Italia was an N-class semi-rigid airship, designation N-4.It was almost identical in design to the N-1 Norge but was slightly larger in gas capacity.. First flight: 1928 [1] ...
This time the airship used a German hangar at Stolp en route to Svalbard and the mast at Vadsø (Northern Norway). On 23 May 1928, after an outstanding 69-hour-long flight to the Siberian group of Arctic islands, the Italia commenced its flight to the North Pole with Nobile as both pilot and expedition leader. On 24 May, the ship reached the ...
24 May – The airship Italia reaches the North Pole, with expedition leader Umberto Nobile on board. The ship crashes on its return journey. [2] 24 June – Umberto Nobile and survivors of the crash of the airship Italia are rescued by the crew of a Swedish aeroplane. 2 August – Italy and Ethiopia sign the Italo-Ethiopian Treaty.
Alessandrini participated as rigger and helmsman to the first two historic airship flights to the North Pole, being part of the crew of the Norge ("Amundsen–Ellsworth–Nobile Transpolar Flight") which was the first airship to fly over the North Pole on May 12, 1926, and the first aircraft to fly over the polar ice cap between Europe and America, [3] and also of the Italia, which made three ...
Krasnaya palatka; Italian: La tenda rossa is a joint Soviet/Italian 1969 adventure drama film directed by Mikhail Kalatozov. The film is based on the story of the 1928 mission to rescue Umberto Nobile and the other survivors of the crash of the airship Italia. It features Sean Connery as Roald Amundsen and Peter Finch as Nobile.
August 11 – Only a little over five weeks after completing their record-breaking Italy-Brazil flight, Italian aviators Arturo Ferrarin and Carlo Del Prete are injured in the crash during a demonstration flight of a Savoia-Marchetti SM.62 flying boat during ongoing post-flight celebrations in Brazil. Del Prete will die of his injuries on ...
The Dirigibile Italia Arctic station (in Italian: Base artica Dirigibile Italia) is an Italian research station in Ny-Ålesund, Svalbard, Norway. Managed by the National Research Council of Italy (CNR), it was inaugurated in May 1997, [1] in memory of the airship Italia expedition of Umberto Nobile (1928).
Leif Dietrichson (1 September 1890 – disappeared 18 June 1928) was a Norwegian military officer and aviation pioneer. He is most famous for joining Roald Amundsen and Lincoln Ellsworth in the 1925 North Pole Expedition. In 1928, Dietrichson disappeared with Amundsen and four others as they were looking for the expedition of Umberto Nobile. [1 ...