Balbo's North Atlantic Flight in 1933 
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Stage Azzorre – Lisbona

Distance
Departure date
Arrival date
Duration
km. 1400
1933-08-09 - 07:25:00
1933-08-09 - 15:15:00
07:50:00


In the image the arrival in Lisbon [on concession of the museum AM of Vigna di Valle].

Official statement of 1933: "The second Atlantic Air Squadron left this morning from the Azores to Lisbon.The three squadrons spread out in Horta regularly took off at 5.22 local time.The five squadrons in Ponta Delgada also started taking off at First light of dawn: Eleven luminaires were regularly raised: the twelfth, the "I-Rani", piloted by the pilot captain Celso Ranieri and the tenant driver Enrico Squaglia, with the senior engineer sergeant Luigi Cremaschi and the Aldo Baveri sergeant sergeant, for reasons not yet ascertained, has departed at the beginning.The Lieutenant pilot Enrico Squaglia, whose conditions have worsened due to the concussion of the brain, has died.The other crew members have reported light bruises. He gave orders to the last three seaplanes to suspend the departure while waiting for the body of water to be cleared of the appliance the accident must be suffered. The three seaplanes could take off at 7.55 local time. At noon, the portuguese marconigraphic services entered into communication with the Squad, which at 15.11, after flying over Lisbon, started the ditching, saluted by artillery salvos, by the scream of the sirens and by the high acclamations of a huge crowd. At 4:32 pm all twenty crew members who had left at dawn from the Azores had landed. Subsequently, at 17.55, they set the last three devices that had taken off from Ponta Delgada at 7.55 am ".