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Word: baldini (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Down came the first black triad, led by the plane labelled I-BALB (Balbo's), to a neat landing in the Zuider Zee. Loud cheers from the throngs on the dikes. Down came the next led by I-PELL (Pellegrini). Then the first red group-I-DINI (Captain Baldini at the controls). Inexplicably the leading red plane smacked the water like a cannonball, somersaulted once, settled into the mud. Captain Baldini and three crewmen were fished out alive, but Sergeant Quintavalle was dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Twenty-five, Less One | 7/10/1933 | See Source »

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