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Biography of Umberto Nobile
Name: Umberto Nobile
Birth Date: January 21, 1885
Death Date: July 29, 1978
Place of Birth: Lauro, Italy
Nationality: Italian
Gender: Male
Occupations: explorer, army officer
Umberto Nobile
The Italian explorer and airship designer Umberto Nobile (1885-1978) was a pioneer in Arctic aviation. His dirigible flight over the North Pole encouraged greater use of aircraft in the Arctic.Umberto Nobile was born in Lauro, Italy, near Naples on Jan. 21, 1885. One of seven children whose father was a government official with limited income, Nobile had to earn his own way at the University of Naples. He graduated with honors in engineering. His early interest in aviation led to a career in dirigible design and construction. Physically unfit for active service in World War I, Nobile was commissioned in the Italian air force and became director of the military factory of aeronautical construction in Rome and eventually a general. His professional skills and long hours of work made him a leading designer of lighter-than-air craft. Convinced of the superior airworthiness of semirigid airships, he designed and built dirigibles for the navies …showed first 150 words…
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…showed last 150 words…the Airships Italia and Norge (1959; trans. 1961); I Can Tell the Truth (1943); The Red Tent (1967); and With the Italia to the North Pole (1930; trans. 1930). Accounts of the flights of the Norge and the Italia are contained in Basil Clarke's, Polar Flight (1964). Clarke presents a factual and concise description of Nobile's contribution to Arctic flying, though he does not deal extensively with the rescue of the Italia survivors. A more complete examination is found in Wilbur Cross, Ghost Ship of the Pole: The Incredible Story of the Dirigible Italia (1960). Cross is highly sympathetic to Nobile and deals fairly well with the attacks made against him by Balbo and others. Other works of interest are The First Flight across the Polar Sea (1927) by Roald Amundsen and Lincoln Ellsworth; Einar Lundborg, The Arctic Rescue: How Nobile Was Saved (1928; trans. 1929); and Davide Giudici, The Tragedy of the Italia: With the Rescuers to the Red Tent (1928).
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