The polar explorer, along with designer and pilot Umberto Nobile, make what is considered the first successful journey of any kind to the pole ...
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The Italia disaster - What really happened to the lost Arctic airship
In 1928, Umberto Nobile’s airship Italia reached the North Pole, only to crash on the return journey and leave part of its ...
On May 24, 1928, Gen. Umberto Nobile and his crew aboard the airship Italia—code-named N-4—dropped Italian flags and a small wooden cross given them by Pope Pius XI onto the North Pole from 450 feet ...
Airship Italia moored in King's bay, Spitsbergen island, Norway, from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year LV, No 23, June 3, 1928. The Arctic has always had an almost mystical appeal to anyone who’s ...
During the Roaring '20s just about everybody was convinced that dirigibles were not just the future of luxury travel but that these lumbering airships could also serve as platforms for scientific ...
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Dal dirigibile di Umberto Nobile ai satelliti: l’Artico, quando l’Italia osava esplorare
Quando Umberto Nobile decollò dalle Svalbard a bordo del dirigibile Italia nel 1928, l’Artico era uno spazio di incertezza geografica e di ambizione umana. Oggi, a distanza di quasi un secolo, quello ...
A silvery blimp dipped. A Roman rabble surged and roared. Four plumed steeds cavorted proudly, their path cleared by resplendent policemen. At the Palazzo Chigi out of a triumphal oldtime open coach, ...
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