Word: francesco
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During the whole voyage tall, patrician, spear-bearded Captain Francesco Tarabotto of the Rex snatched scarcely two hours sleep out of each 24, constantly paced the bridge. Below decks the four turbines of 130,000 rated horsepower and the 14 boilers which burn 700 tons of oil a day to drive the Rex at her usual 26 knots were devouring 1,100 tons. As jovial, ruddy Chief Engineer Luigi Risso turned on more & more steam, pushed up the pace from the Rex's fast norm to a terrific, record average speed of 28.92 knots both officers and passengers noticed...
...individual stars. Nor are there any in Italo Balbo's personal scheme. Soon after Balbo took office, famed Col. Mario de Bernardi. Schneider Trophy winner in 1926, turned up in civilian clothes. Arturo Ferrarin (Rome-Tokyo; Rome-Brazil) landed on the reserve list. And Col. Francesco de Pinedo awoke halfway around the world one morning to find himself exiled to Buenos Aires as military attach...
Bullet. Two months ago at Lake Garda, Italy, stocky little Francesco Agello, 30, sole survivor of Italy's 1931 Schneider Cup team, whipped the seaplane Red Bullet over the course for a new world record of 423.7 m.p.h. A month later his chief, Colonel Mario Bernasconi, was timed unofficially at 434 m.p.h. Last week Warrant Officer Agello, leader of the speed school, tried the course again in his Red Bullet. Timing cameras, again unofficial, caught his speed at 440 m.p.h...
...bulletin boards all over Italy flared that legend six years ago. It was the recruiting slogan of the Italian Air Force. In hotels, drinking rooms, barber shops, banks, the legend was pasted above maps of the world, on which the course of the seaplane Santa Maria, captained by Commander Francesco de Pinedo ("Messenger of Italianity," "Conqueror of the Air"), was charted from Sardinia to West Africa, across the South Atlantic to Brazil, around South America and up to New Orleans, thence across the desert to Roosevelt Lake. Ariz. There careless mechanics let gasoline spill out on the water. A numskull...
...Lake Garda in northern Italy, Colonel Mario Bernasconi, commander of the Scuola di Alta Velocita (high speed school), took the controls of the "Red Bullet" seaplane in which Warrant Officer Francesco Agello lately made a new world speed record of 423.7 m. p. h. (TIME, April 17). Col. Bernasconi streaked around the measured course of the lake while timing cameras clicked. The developed films showed a speed (unofficial...