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Italian Airships
- British Pathe
British Pathe still charges for professional use of their massive library of footage but now you
can preview the footage for free. Use to the search function to locate relevant material.
http://www.britishpathe.com/
- Fathom
Use the search term Italian Airship to locate various items, including transcripts from various
interviews given by Umberto Nobile. On the homepage it says this website is no longer being
maintained but it can still be viewed.
http://www.fathom.com
- Hampton Roads
This page is about the crash of the Italian Airship Roma over Norfolk, Virginia. The page
features over a dozen images of the Airship, the crash and the public funeral held to honour
the memory of those who died.
http://hamptonroads.com/2010/06/roma-airship-disaster-over-norfolk
- Library of Congress
To locate images of Italian Airships use search terms such as Umberto Nobile or Italian
Airships. And on occasion larger image will only display onsite at the Library of Congress
itself.
http://www.loc.gov/
- PolarFlight Online
This website has a relatively large amount of information about Umberto Nobile and the crash of
the Italia in 1928. They are numerous photographs and two maps. On the final page of The 1928
Crash Of The Airship Italia - A Pictorial History there is a bibliography.
http://polarflight-online.tripod.com
- South Pole
This is an eight page article about the search for the Italia. It features a multitude of source
documents including many photographs.
http://www.south-pole.com/aspp015.htm
- Spitsbergen Airship Museum
This is a privately owned museum which is open to the public in Svalbard, Norway. It was
established to commemorate the Italia and the Norge. Click on Items to view the hundreds of
objects they have already collected.
http://www.spitsbergenairshipmuseum.com/
- St. Petersburg: Through (The) Centuries
The Norge, which is Italian for Norway, flew over St. Petersburg (Then Leningrad) on-route to
the North Pole in 1926. It features five photographs in total, including three of the Airship
itself.
http://www.300.years.spb.ru/eng/3_spb_3.html?id=106
- Vintage Aircraft Association
This is a PDF of an article by Irven F. Parmer. It is about his trip to Teller, Alaska which is
where the Norge crashed after her trip from Rome to the North Pole via St. Petersburg. It also
include the specifications for the Airship.
http://www.vintageaircraft.org/featured/2003%20-%20Vol.%2031,%20No.%2003%20-%20In%20Search%20of%20the%20Norge.pdf
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