Amundsen Airship

Amundsen airship. From pole to pole. Roald amundsen s journey in flight. The polar airship norge completes second stage of adventurous journey arriving at oslo in 11 hrs. The expedition was the brainchild of polar explorer and expedition leader roald amundsen the airship s designer and pilot umberto nobile and american.

The norge was a semi rigid italian built airship that carried out the first verified trip of any kind to the north pole an overflight on 12 may 1926 it was also the first aircraft to fly over the polar ice cap between europe and america. In which fifteen men in a dirigible to say nothing of the dog conquer the north pole while arguing all the way and john wonders if there are italians on the moon. In 1897 he sailed as first mate on the belgica in a belgian expedition that was the first to winter in the antarctic in 1903 with a crew of six on his 47 ton sloop gjøa amundsen began his mission to sail through the northwest passage and around the northern canadian coast he reached cape colborne in present day nunavut in august. Amundsen and his friend hjalmar riiser larsen the founder of the royal norwegian air force who would later also be part of the expedition decided that the best airship for this mission was the italian made airship n 1 designed by umberto nobile an italian aeronautical engineer who designed the most advanced semi rigid airships at the time.

The airship was renamed from n1 to norge norway. The first scientific expedition to the. Stroud fonthill media 2017 hugo decleir. Airship iced up shots in flight and of control panels reconstruction.

New york skyhorse publishing 2014 garth cameron. The aeroclub of norway backed by the american millionaire adventurer lincoln ellsworth wished to purchase the italians n1 airship for an expedition to the pole. Umberto nobile and the arctic search for the airship italia. Before his finskos were even dry amundsen was on the telegraph to italian airship designer colonel umberto nobile with an interesting proposal.

Nobile and amundsen airship and their expedition across to the pole. Sutton publishing 2006 garth cameron. Another norwegian hjalmar riiser larsen a qualified airship pilot was appointed as navigator and was 3rd in command after amundsen and ellsworth. Amundsen studied medicine for a while and then took to sea.