Word: balbo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Italian Air Force has ever since had its eye on the record of 408.8 m.p.h. held by Lieut. George H. Stainforth. To attack that record, the air force developed a Macchi seaplane powered by two Fiat 1,500 h.p. engines in tandem. To fly it. Air Minister Italo Balbo delegated a new pilot named Neri, a minuscule man whose exploits since he joined the force a short time ago earned him the nickname "Death Cheat...
...Congress voted to make Rome a clearing house for oceanic flying weather data, elected General Balbo president, chose Manhattan for the next meeting, got medals from Premier Mussolini, adjourned...
Club for the expressed purpose of determining the best air route across the Atlantic. But spade-bearded General Italo Balbo, promoter of the conference, was not really looking for information. He was well satisfied with the lane from West Africa to Brazil across which he had led a squadron of ten seaplanes last year. General Balbo had something else on his mind: a proposal that all nations open their airports to international commercial traffic as seaports admit ships of all flags. The delegates were without authority but could direct sentiment...
Iglesias (Spain-Brazil 1929). On General Balbo's side spoke Portugal's Admiral Gago Coutinho (Lisbon-Brazil 1922) whose government had given France the Azores concession, and Harold Gatty of the U. S. (round-world 1931). A vote was called by Chairman Sir Arthur Whitten Brown (first Atlantic flight, Newfoundland-Ireland 1919, with the late Sir John William Alcock). While French and Spanish delegates sat mute the rest of the Congress upheld Balbo's open-door policy...
...General Balbo then revealed that Italy was ready to begin weekly 88-hr, flights between Rome and Buenos Aires. His plans were complete down to timetables, $800 fares and 75? postage. With full loads of eight passengers and ample mail, he said, the line would show a profit above the $1,300,000 annual expense...