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...minded individuals might pick Italo Balbo, leader of Italy's mass flight to the World's Fair, as the year's outstanding airman. But the Federation Aeronautique Internationale hinted that it would make no award this year, having honored Flyer Balbo once before...
Meanwhile last week a squadron of French army biplanes roared across the Sahara on a null tour of French African territory which began fortnight ago, will last for another month. Possibly inspired by Italy's formidable demonstration in the Balbo flight, France's air cruise was ordered by bespectacled Air Minister Pierre Cot. The full complement contained 30 planes which started from Istres Airdrome in southern France. One cracked up in Spain, another in Morocco. At desolate Bidon V (Gastank No. 5) three more planes had to hang back with engine trouble, caught up again in Upper Senegal...
Appointed. Benito Mussolini by King Yittorio Emanuele III (on Benito Mussolini's advice) to take over the Air Ministry from Air Marshal Italo Balbo (who was appointed Governor of Libya) and the Navy Ministry from Admiral Giuseppe Sirianni (who was made Director of the Government-subsidized Cogne Steel...
...world's record for a non-stop flight-in-formation. After 25 hr. of methodical flight, five of the 5F sextet swooped down on the naval base at Coco Solo, Canal Zone, 1,788 nautical miles from Norfolk-160 nautical miles better than Italo Balbo's record hop with ten planes across the South Atlantic in 1931. One plane with engine trouble lagged 40 mi. behind. Around the Bureau of Aeronautics in Washington last week it was jubilantly hinted that Squadron 5F might be sent on a 3,000-mi. jaunt up the west coast to San Diego...
...careless match that burned up his ship. Then he came down at sea, had to be towed for seven days into Fayal. Now came worse. Some say it was the House of Savoy, angered because he dared court Princess Giovanna (today Queen of Bulgaria). Some say it was Italo Balbo, jealous of de Pinedo's acclaim. Some say it was because de Pinedo "forgot" about a half-million-lire fund raised for him by Italo-Americans to buy a new plane. Italo's hero was suddenly, drastically demoted, attached ob- scurely to the embassy in Buenos Aires. There...