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Sirs: The scurrilous, malicious and vicious attacks of correspondents Oftedal and Schiorring on unfortunate explorer Nobile are a product of stupidity, ignorance and immaturity. . . . We of Italian blood admire Amundsen as we admire all brave men. We regret his predicament as we regret the predicament of the "Italia" which has cost Italy the lives of several equally as brave if not as renowned men, but we must insist that Nobile is in no way responsible for Amundsen's predicament. . . . In view of such dirigible disasters as the Shenandoah. the Dismeale, the Roma and the R34 and especially...
...short time before the Nobile dirigible Italia plunged to destruction the "magnetic component" was worked out by Professor Aldo Pontremoli, who is now missing on the Polar ice. "He came toward me radiant with joy," said General Nobile, "crying that he had finished the calculation at last. He told me the figure, which, fortunately, I can still remember. Whoever is acquainted with these scientific problems will realize the immense value of this discovery...
...formal statement made by General Nobile, at Rome, ran: "If I should again return to the Arctic, I would use a dirigible identical with the Italia. . . *The flights made by the Italia constitute a record for flights over the Arctic regions. In three flights we covered over 5,500 miles in 134 hours actual flying time. This is about twice the number of hours flown by the Norge† and about three times the distance covered by Captain George H. Wilkins in his flights." (TIME, April...
...toast this event, the poem soars into the very zenith of satiric sacrilege and "Champagne Popery."* Coldly, factually the Soviet press service Tass presented details on the basis of which cannibalism might be imputed to Captains Filipo Zappi and Alberto Mariano (respectively Pilot and Navigator of the Nobile dirigible Italia), who set off to tramp across the ice to land with the Swedish meteorologist Dr. Finn Malmgren, but were alone when rescued (TIME, July 23). Tass reported that, on the day before the rescue of Zappi and Mariano, a Soviet plane photographed them from the air, and that a third...
...June 7: Amateur radio enthusiasts report imaginary signals from Italia. The hunt begins with rescue ships, icebreakers, airplanes. Also to the rescue go Alpine Chasseur Capt. Sora and the Dutchman Van Dongen, on foot...