 Balbo's North Atlantic Flight in 1933  |
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The sea planes
Seaplane S.M 55 X The communications
The ships
Ship Alice The airplanes in support The equipment |
From "Rivista Aeronautica year IX number IX September 9, 1933": "The organization of the Atlantic Cruises of the Decennale has made use of the experiences of the first cruise, and also for the use of the radio, it has proved impeccable. each stage of the cruise was installed a radio station, an autonomous rt network worked for the exclusive service of the cruise, obeyed a single head, and had a single purpose (Figure I-bis) The stations of Orbetello and Rome -Montecelio, of Londonderry, of Reykjavik and of julianehaab, of the Alice to Cartwright and of the Millelire in the Atlantic, together with the stations of the whalers and the hydro at the bottom, as well as the stations of Amsterdam and Saywille near New York, where they were Our officers were stationed, they were all at the service of the triumphal wing. The Decennial Cruise stations employed waves of 29, 39 and 54 meters, as well as the long wave of 850 meters .. Saywille was directly connected to Orbetello . The commun Colonel Barba who flew every day on the Labrador, and those of dr. Baumann, coming from Greenland, gave the weather reports of those areas daily. A beacon was installed on board the Alice; its signals. received from the on-board radiogoniometer, maintained the Atlantic on the right course. The Hydro of the Cape I BALB maintained contact with the bases, with Italy, with the Duce. The commander could thus give his orders to the crews in flight, thin out the training, change the odds; he could weave dialogues in the middle of the Atlantic with the ships of the motherland, giving them the certainty of victory. " Following some images; click to enlarge
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