![]() ![]() Adalberto Mariano ( RM), navigator – survived.Francesco Tomaselli, journalist – not on final flight.Ugo Lago, journalist – disappeared with envelope.Aldo Pontremoli, physicist – disappeared with envelope.František Běhounek, Czechoslovak physicist – survived. ![]() Finn Malmgren, Swedish meteorologist, physicist – died trekking for help.Umberto Nobile, expedition leader – survived.He obtained strong assistance from the Italian Royal Navy and secured the necessary funds from a financing private Committee of the City of Milan. Power plant: 3 Maybach diesel engines, 560 kilowatts (750 hp) totalĪt the end of 1927, after much insistence, Nobile gained permission to use this airship for a new scientific expedition to the North Pole under the aegis of the Italian Geographical Society.Performance: 113.0 kilometres per hour (70.2 mph).It was almost identical in design to the N-1 Norge but slightly larger in gas capacity. Italia was an N-class semi-rigid airship, designation N-4. ![]()
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