Umberto Nobile
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Umberto Nobile was an Italian aviator, aeronautical engineer and Arctic explorer.
Umberto Nobile c. 1923
Umberto Nobile and his dog Titina in 1926
Umberto Nobile, commanding the Norge, looks from the window of the control car, as the airship departs from the base at Spitsbergen
"N3," Japan at Kasumigaura, Japan on 24 May 1927
Roald Amundsen
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Roald Engelbregt Gravning Amundsen was a Norwegian explorer of polar regions. He was a key figure of the period known as the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration.
Umberto Nobile
…being anti-fascists, obstructed plans for a Rome-Rio de Janeiro flight, and held back support for polar expeditions. In late 1925, Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen sought out Nobile to collaborate on a flight to the North Pole – still at that time an unachieved goal for aviators – using an airship. Amundsen had…
Amundsen c. 1923
Roald Amundsen as a young boy in 1875
RV Belgica frozen in the ice, 1898
Amundsen c. 1908