Word: balbo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...darkness "black as the shirts of the pilots," General Italo Balbo's squadron of twelve great Savoia-Marchetti seaplanes roared along the water off Bolama, west coast of Africa, to take-off for Brazil (TIME, Jan. 5). The first group of three black-winged ships, led by the General himself, vanished into the night, followed by a green-winged triad. Next came the red wings, but the third plane of that group faltered under its 10,000-lb. load, nosed down into the sea, killed its mechanic. The last triad, white-winged, was in the air ten minutes when...
Through floating clouds, dimly illumined by the full moon which General Balbo had awaited, the formation flew south and west across the narrowest neck (1,860 mi.) of the South Atlantic, checking their course by radio with the seven Italian cruisers strung along the route
...Bellonte together realized no more than $100,000 from their 1930 trans-atlantic flight and all that went with it. According to Variety's Paris correspondence: "They came home tired and disillusioned. French Government carried them on the hip for $300,000. No way to get that back." Balbo's Squadron. Into the little harbor of Bolama on the west coast of Africa last week glided 14 Savoia-Marchetti flying boats. Led by Italy's 34-year-old air minister, General Italo Balbo, they had flown in four stages from Orbetello, near Rome. Now mechanics swarmed over...
...airmen for helpful suggestions. The message of Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh, published last week: "A uniform [world] system of markings and signals should be decided upon, and a comprehensive meteorological and radio reporting system established. Aviation must be considered from an international standpoint." Dr. Hugo Eckener and General Italo Balbo, Italian Air Minister, likewise pleaded for close international co-operation to develop air navigation. A proposal of the Swiss delegates: that European nations divert part of the government subsidies which they now receive for aviation, to a pool for the development of international airlines...
...Triumvirs remaining from the original Quadrumvirate are: General Emilio De Bono, Minister of Colonies; General Italo Balbo, Minister of Aviation; Count Cesare Maria De Vecchi, Italian Ambassador to Vatican City...