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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 ...
Italia will crash on her way back. May 25 – Sixty-one Regia Aeronautica (Italian Royal Air Force) seaplanes – 51 Savoia-Marchetti S.59bis and 10 Savoia-Marchetti S.55s – led by General Italo Balbo set out from Orbetello, Italy, on a six-stage, mass-formation flight circuiting the Western Mediterranean.
This is a complete list of Forlanini airships designed and built by the Italian pioneer Enrico Forlanini from 1900 to 1931 (posthumously). [1] These, like the German Groß-Basenach semi-rigid airships, were the first to have the gondola attached to the envelope, to reduce air resistance.
The village of Italia was founded in 1882 by Irish-born entrepreneur William MacWilliams (1840-1887). It was located at milepost 18 on the Florida Transit Railway, which ran from Fernandina on the Atlantic coast to Cedar Key on the Gulf of Mexico.
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.
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
A ‘photogrammetry’ model was made using images divers captured of a two pieces of a sunken AD-5 Skyraider plane that crashed off the coast of Key Biscayne in 1957.
U.S. Navy airship D-6, A-5972, burns in its NAS Rockaway hangar, along with airships C-10 and H-1, and the kite balloon A-P. 21 February 1922 U.S. Army airship Roma (ex-Italian T34) hits power lines in Virginia and burns out following rudder failure, killing 34 of 45 on board. 34 8 17 October 1922