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Nobile

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No·bi·le  (nb-l, -b-l), Umberto 1885-1978.
Italian aeronautical engineer and Arctic explorer who designed several airships, including the semirigid dirigible Norge in which he flew over the North Pole with Roald Amundsen (1926).
Nobile (Italian) [nobɪle]
n
(Biographies / Nobile, Umberto (1885-1978) M, Italian, TECHNOLOGY: engineer, TRAVEL AND EXPLORATION: aviator) Umberto. 1885-1978, Italian aeronautical engineer and aviator. He flew his Norge airship over the North Pole (1926) with Amundsen and his Italia airship over the Pole in 1928, crashing on the return


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