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Nobile managed to gather with the forces, was able to not sleep and effectively manage the Norwegian blimp for several days. There's a little 5 kg dog in his memory, almost the whole flight sleeping near.

The North Pole was a lifeless icy desert. The sun has been looked at several times, allowing the coordinates to be refined. Nobile seemed to see icondescending the smile of Leonardo da Vinci.

As for the dirigible. Nobile sometimes asked himself how he decided to fly over the North Pole. Through the Arctic Ocean. The airship was designed for relatively long-range flights over the Mediterranean Sea. During the flight from Italy to Svalbard, a number of mechanical breakdowns took place in the motor part, and in a transarctic flight from Svalbard to Alaska, the pieces of ice discarded by propellers severely damaged the hull ... There were problems with the elasticity, the ice-freezing surfaces. Of course, the airship was refined and modernized, but the task of the Transarctic flight was, however, a field of supernatural luck.

"Ambition and contempt for danger", "the irresistible attraction of the name Amundsen - conqueror of the South Pole," "the desire to see one of the airships created by Italians in Great flight" - such were, among others - the motivations of Umberto Nobile .

The overtired Nobile, completing a flight across the Arctic Ocean, clicking over the North Pole, was able to organize a successful airship landing in the Americas, Alaska, on May 14, 1926.

They followed the holidays, the celebrations, the awards. Someone would say the event was some kind of surreal, fairy tale. And, of course, an outstanding, historic.

Nobile felt that he was increasingly being dragged into the logic of contemporary his (Italian) history.

General, distinguished balloonist, historical character! What could have prevented his "distinguished" career, forthcoming him a distinctive glory?

The Flight of "Italy" in 1928, the next achievement of the North Pole, the ensuing catastrophe, could not be prevented. The individual rescue of the Nobile by the Swedish Air Force Einar Lundborg and the rescue of a number of other members of the airship's crew, icebreaker "Krasin".

The conflict relationship between Umberto Nobile and ruling Italian elite. Nobile moved to advise on's airship issues to Russia (for five years, 1931-1936) and then to the United States (1939-1945).

He returned to Italy in 1945, and taught at the University of Naples.

What weights do you weigh his luck and unluckyness? How is his-prosperous, in general-life after the second polar Bad flight (on the Italian airship) compared to Raul Amundsen's death, the disappearance of other members of other polar expeditions?

He died in Rome in 1978, at the age of 93, with the reputation of a talented engineer who was a fortunate (and unlucky) balloonist. The Participant of A unique fairy tale transarctic flight over the North Pole.

To one of the residents of Rome, the gust of wind dismissed the response of Leonardo da Vinci to a question from Columbus: "You know, Captain. ... There was no and there could be no tropical islands ... Umberto Nobile - General. He is prone to heroism ..."

January 17, 2017

This translation: 24.08.2017 17:10

VIII.The tale of Krzysztof Baranowski..

1972. Atlantic. The coast of Canada, Newfoundland, is approaching.

Late evening. Suddenly the Baranowski saw Arkady Fiedler.

- Arkady, hello. I like your book "Canada smelling of pitch".

- Hello, Krzysztof. I can tell you a little bit about Canada in 1935, what I wrote in my book. Will it be helpful to you? You - alone on a yacht crossing the Atlantic Ocean?

- Arkady, I'm taking your proposal with interest. We're in the ocean. The waves are overboard. Nice friendly communication.

Arkady Fiedler talked about Canada. But not only. The perception of the nature of Canada in 1935, he supplemented the biographical essays, the Loneliness of emigrants, and the complex, unusual, strange and illogical fates of others. Spoke of a "pathetic mood", a commitment to the idea of "the crucified nation's". Mention was also made of notions such as the "stale circle of petty interests", "Minshhina" and "Panshhina".

Of course, if it hadn't been a friendly conversation between two fellows, the Krzysztof could ask, "in your book, Arkady, one of the graduates of the military Engineering school in Kamianets-Podilskyi became an outstanding famous Canadian engineer in the 1860-X-1870-year era, and then, apparently, an English lord." And the other alumni? "The wilderness Minsk" plus mysterious, but some scary, "Panschina"? "Are mired" in musty a circle of petty interests? But the maps of any scale with their network of railroads do not indicate the existence of the "wilderness Minsk". However, the format of the meeting of two writers on a yacht in the middle of the ocean was not intended for critical assessments.

Like bumping in mind on September 1, 1939, Arkady Fiedler suddenly stopped up his story.

The night was over.