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Italian Airships
- Fathom
Using the search term Umberto Nobile returns a wealth of results that
are well worth searching through including interviews and transcripts.
http://www.fathom.com/search/index.html
- Fiddlers Green
This is a very well illustrated webpage from the card modelling company Fiddlers
Green. It provides excellent background information about Umberto Nobile and the
crash of the Airship Italia near the North Pole.
http://www.fiddlersgreen.net/AC/aircraft/Norge-Airship/info/info.php
- NEW! - Free Patents Online
This is a direct link to a patent issued by the United States Patent Office to Umberto Nobile
for a semi-rigid Airship. Registration is required but it is free. The patent includes four
pages of illustrations and three pages of text.
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/1513001.html
- Prints and Photographs Online Collection
The best search term to use is Umberto Nobile. Click on preview images to view
this treasure trove of a relatively large numbers of images related to Norge and
her flight to the North Pole.
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pp/pphome.html
- South Pole
This is a well illustrated collection of philatelic and other items such as
radiograms from the Russian icebreaker the Krassin. They are all related to the
search for the Italia in the wake of the crash diaster near the North Pole. Each
item has a brief description and where required a translation.
http://www.south-pole.com/aspp015.htm
- St. Petersburg: Through The Centuries
In 1926 The Norge flew to the North Pole via St Petersburg with Roald Amundsen
organising the flight and Umberto Nobile as the captain. This article explains
why this route was chosen and it features three photographs of the Norge near St
Petersburg.
http://www.300.years.spb.ru/eng/3_spb_3.html?id=106
- Vintage Aircraft Association
This is a featured article from the Vintage magazine by a private pilot about his
flight to Teller, Alaska in a Cessna 170B. Teller is where the Norge landed after
flying to the North Pole from Rome.
http://www.vintageaircraft.org/featured/2003%20-%20Vol.%2031,%20No.%2003%20-%20In%20Search%20of%20the%20Norge.pdf
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