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Orbetello hotels were filled last week with females young & old, beauteous & unlovely. They were the women folk of 100 aviators who awaited the signal to start the biggest show ever staged by Italian aviation: the mass flight of 25 seaplanes across the ocean to Chicago and A Century of Progress...
With discipline relaxed the pilots amused themselves like college footballers on the eve of a Big Game. One restless fellow laid hold of Marco, the squadron's donkey mascot, painted zebra stripes on him. Others held a mock election for the recipient of an ivory plaque carved with the...
A priest came forward, prayed over the men, sprinkled holy water toward the seaplanes, and invoked the blessing of the Virgin of Loreto.* "O God, . . . who hast destined all the elements of this world for the use of the human race, bless us, we beseech Thee, this aircraft . . . that those...
The Flight to A Century of Progress is known to Italians as Crodera del Decennale (Cruise of the Decennial) celebrating the tenth birthday of Fascism. It was conceived two years ago by General Balbo when he completed his squadron flight of ten seaplanes (out of 14 starters) across the South...
Meantime at Orbetello, Italy, General Italo Balbo was tuning up 24 Fascist seaplanes to fly over in style. Transshipped to Montreal and reassembled, England's famed London-Edinburgh express, the Royal Scot, complete with new paint, shiny brasses and fresh-scrubbed stewards, exhibited itself to 3,000 an hour...