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Bookmark or Share- Umberto Nobile - WikipediaUmberto Nobile (Italian pronunciation: [umˈbɛrto ˈnɔːbile]; 21 January 1885 – 30 July 1978) was an Italian aviator, aeronautical engineer and Arctic explorer. Nobile was a developer and promoter of semi-rigid airships in the years between the two World Wars.
- Italia (airship) - WikipediaFate. Crashed. The Italia was a semi-rigid airship belonging to the Italian Air Force. It was designed by Italian engineer and General Umberto Nobile who commanded the dirigible in his second series of flights around the North Pole.
- Gen. Umberto Nobile, Italian - The New York TimesROME, July 30 (Reuters) — Gen. Umberto Nobile, the Italian aviator who was one of the first men to fly over the North Pole, died last night. He was 93 years old. The New York Times. NOBILE DEAD...
- Nobile’s drama and Amundsen’s end | PolarjournalWith 21 planes, 16 ships and dog sleds on rescue missions. And with 18 dead. The protagonists in this tragedy: Umberto Nobile, an Italian airship engineer with the rank of general, and Roald Amundsen, Norwegian explorer and the first man at the South Pole in 1911.
- Umberto Nobile | Arctic Expedition, Airship Pilot, EngineerUmberto Nobile (born January 21, 1885, Lauro, near Salerno, Italy—died July 30, 1978, Rome) was an Italian aeronautical engineer and pioneer in Arctic aviation who in 1926, with the Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen and Lincoln Ellsworth of the United States flew over the North Pole in the dirigible Norge, from Spitsbergen (now Svalbard ...
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