Engineer

Umberto Nobile

1885-1978 · Italian · 1 places

Italian aeronautical engineer and airship designer who drew the semi-rigid airship N1, sold to Norway under an agreement signed in September 1925, renamed Norge, and commanded it on the flight over the North Pole in May 1926. Because the…

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