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...decorated airman, most famed next to Balbo. He it was who, scouring the Arctic wastes in 1928, first sighted General Umberto Nobile and his party from the wrecked dirigible Italia, stranded on the ice near Spitsbergen. Sitting behind Col. Madda lena in the seaplane last week was Capt. Fausto Cecconi, 26, former co-holder with Maddalena of two flying records. With their companion, Lieut. Giuseppe Da-monte, they were going to Rome to try and regain their non-refueling endurance and distance records from the French, who had just wrested them away with a 76-hr, flight. Over the Mediterranean...
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