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Meantime at Orbetello, Italy, General Italo Balbo was tuning up 24 Fascist seaplanes to fly over in style. Transshipped to Montreal and reassembled, England's famed London-Edinburgh express, the Royal Scot, complete with new paint, shiny brasses and fresh-scrubbed stewards, exhibited itself to 3,000 an hour in New York before touring leisurely out to Chicago. Mexico City was polishing up a special Presidential train to bear the famed Monte Alban jewels to Chicago's Fair. From Japan to Chicago had come a national exhibit filling 17 freight cars...
...years later Hero de Pinedo was a general, chief of staff for Italian aviation, leading squadron flights in which one pilot was hot-blooded Italo Balbo, then Undersecretary for Air. Everywhere they went, de Pinedo was the hero. But no Italian youth in his right mind who knew Italo Balbo would have then wanted "to become a de Pinedo." Balbo learned that the forgotten $26,000 was still in the bank and that de Pinedo had been accepting $20 a week interest on the money. A word to Il Duce, a telephone call to de Pinedo: "Your resignation as Chief...
...extraordinary plans. Single-handed he would fly from Floyd Bennett Field, N. Y. to "some point in Asia," breaking by 1,000 mi. the 5,126 mi. non-stop distance record held by Great Britain. Shrewdly, he timed his flight to steal some of the thunder of Italo Balbo's squadron flight to the U. S. next month. He got big headlines by describing his unusual preparations for the ordeal of flying solo two days and a half...
...flukes are the new Italian speed records, but the fruit of a determined program begun six years ago, after Britain won the Schneider Trophy on Italy's course at Venice. At that time Air Minister Italo Balbo established the speed school at Lake Garda, put Col. Bernasconi in command. The following year Italy upped the world record to 318 m. p. h., soon lost it again to Britain. Italy's efforts to regain the record took a frightful toll. She had pinned her hopes on a Macchi seaplane with a 2,800-h. p. Fiat motor driving...
...special Italian train, the British party were startled near Arquata Scrivia when the electric engine got tangled up in the overhead wires, tore down 500 yards of them. Rushing to the rescue, an Italian steam locomotive tugged the MacDonald train to Genoa where Air Minister General Italo Balbo waited at the controls of a big trimotored Italian seaplane. Flanked by nine escort planes, they darted toward Ostia (the seaplane port of Rome). In top hat, morning coat and carrying a cane. Il Duce peered skyward as Scot MacDonald, hatless and tousle-haired, waved from the alighting seaplane...