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Nobile and the Italia at Stolp, Pomerania, in April 1928, before embarking on the polar flights. At 01:15 on 15 April 1928, Italia took off from the base at Milano and headed for the Arctic. With 20 personnel on board, and a payload of 17,000 pounds (7,700 kg) of fuel and supplies, the initial journey to Stolp in Germany took 30 hours through a ...
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 ...
Nach 30 stündigem Fluge landete das italienische Nordpolluftschiff "Italia" unter Führung des Generals Nobile wohlbehalten in Stolp in Pommern. Eine Stabiliesierungsfläche am Luftschiff wurde im Gewittersturm stark beschädigt. Das glücklich gelandete Luftschiff "Italia" in Stolp i/Pommern. Headline: Stolp, Landung des Nordpol-Luftschiffes ...
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 ...
On 11 May, [4] Amundsen and Umberto Nobile's airship Norge left Ny-Ålesund and traveled via the North Pole to Alaska. This is regarded as the first successful expedition to the North Pole. [5] After two short skirmishes, Nobile's airship Italia left Ny-Ålesund on 23 May 1928 to reach the North Pole, but crashed on the return. [6]
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).
1928: Carl Ben Eielson–Hubert Wilkins Arctic Ocean crossing 1928 : The airship Italia (Umberto Nobile); airship crashed, but Nobile was rescued 1928 : Roald Amundsen disappears in the Arctic aboard a Latham 47 while searching for Nobile