Word: orbetello
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Dates: during 1931-1931
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...minutes when its second plane crashed, burst into flame, sank with its entire crew of four. General Balbo learned their fate by radio, but he led on. Nothing was to be gained by turning back, after 14 months intensive rehearsal for this very moment. Moreover, before leaving Orbetello, near Rome, the handsome young air minister had told his chief, Benito Mussolini, "I foresee the loss of three out of the twelve machines." He would call the flight a success if only six reached Natal safely. Within an hour after the crashes two spare planes, left at Bolama, had taken...
...that back." Balbo's Squadron. Into the little harbor of Bolama on the west coast of Africa last week glided 14 Savoia-Marchetti flying boats. Led by Italy's 34-year-old air minister, General Italo Balbo, they had flown in four stages from Orbetello, near Rome. Now mechanics swarmed over the ships-great twin-hulled craft, each with two 500-h. p. Fiat engines-preparing twelve of them for a single flight of 1,860 mi. to Natal, Brazil. In formation of four triads, each designated by a wing-color (red, black, green, white) and each plane...