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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
June 18, 1928: Latham 47.02: 6 Unknown North Atlantic Ocean (Barents Sea) This group was searching for survivors of the missing airship Italia. Roald Amundsen and René Guilbaud were among the missing attempted rescuers. September 6, 1928: R.1 Blackburn (N9834) 3 Unknown North Atlantic Ocean
The airship Italia, crewed by sixteen men led by Umberto Nobile, departed from Svalbard in a bid to fly over the North Pole just as the Norge had done in 1926. [35] The crew hoped this time to actually land at the North Pole. [36] A bomb exploded at the Italian consulate in Buenos Aires, killing 8 and injuring 37.
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. The script was adapted by Yuri Nagibin and Mikhail Kalatozov from Nagibin's novel of the same title.
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 ...