Word: orbetello
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...Named in honor of Mussolini's Italo Balbo, who set Chicago on its ear in 1933 when he led two dozen seaplanes in a 6,100-mile, 16-day flight from Orbetello, Italy via Amsterdam and Iceland to Chicago, where they landed in perfect formation on Lake Michigan...
...petals, cast by Italian children on their way to Londonderry's Guildhall. The 24 seaplanes rode at moorings, drinking gasoline by the hundred-gallon in preparation for the next jump to Iceland, en route to Chicago. But there were 25 that took off from the home base at Orbetello the morning before (TIME, June 26). Twenty-five crossed the Alps at Spluga Pass, roared over Zurich and Basle, and trailed shadows on the soil of Strasbourg, Mannheim, Cologne. The 25 wheeled over Amsterdam to be saluted in the air by a convoy of 60 Dutch seaplanes celebrating the 20th...
...back, a magnificent military gesture costing upward of $500,000, was not approved by all Italians, who feel acutely the pinch of hard times. At one time the Italian Government even denied that it was contemplated. However, for the past year and a half at Orbetello, and more recently along the route to Chicago, flight preparations have been intense...
...route from Orbetello lies northwest to Amsterdam (870 mi.), to Londonderry, Ireland (630 mi.), to Reykjavik, Iceland (930 mi.), southwest to Cartwright, Labrador (1,500 mi.), to Shediac, N. B. (800 mi.), to Montreal (500 mi.), to Chicago (870 mi.). Following'a three-day fete at the World's Fair the squadron will hop east to Port Washington, N. Y. on Long Island Sound. Unlike the South Atlantic flight, on which General Balbo left his planes with the Brazilian Government in barter for coffee, he will lead this squadron home again through the sky. The route, undetermined...
...ability as an organizer. He told him to learn to fly, gave him the Undersecretariat of Air. Disgruntled were famed Italian flyers who thought they rated the job. But Undersecretary Balbo was no swivel, chair cabinet officer. He learned to fly ably. He developed the navigation school at Orbetello and a high speed school at Lake Garda where trim Macchi seaplanes lately wrested the world's speed record (423 m.p.h.) from Great Britain. He developed a system of six airlines on which not a single passenger has been killed in three years. He built up Italy's military...