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Norge (airship)

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Norge (airship)

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 11 through 14 May 1926. It was also the first aircraft to fly over the polar ice cap between Europe and America. The expedition was the brainchild of polar explorer and expedition leader Roald Amundsen, the airship's designer and pilot Umberto Nobile, and the wealthy American adventurer and explorer Lincoln Ellsworth who, along with the Norsk Luftseiladsforening (Norwegian Airways Association), financed the trip which was known as the Amundsen–Ellsworth 1926 Transpolar Flight.

Infobox

Other name
N-1, I-SAAN (Italian registration number)
Type
N-class semi-rigid airship
Owners
Umberto Nobile et al
Manufactured
1923
First flight
March 1924 as N-1; April 1926 as Norge
Fate
Dismantled at Teller, Alaska, for transport to Europe. Never flown again.

References

  1. Evening Star
    https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045462/1924-04-15/ed-1/seq-1/
  2. Christopher 2010, p. 79
  3. The Times
  4. The Times
  5. The Times
  6. The Times
  7. The Times
  8. The Times
  9. The Times
  10. The Times
  11. The Times
  12. Nobile
  13. Kumpch 1996
  14. Kumpch 1996. Amundsen wrote in his notebook that at 02:20 in the morning they were at the North Pole, 200 metres high wi
  15. Kumpch 1996: "Zirkuswagen am Himmel"
  16. thecordovatimes
    https://thecordovatimes.com/2025/05/12/the-destruction-airship-norge/
  17. fiddlersgreen
    http://www.fiddlersgreen.net/models/aircraft/Norge-Airship.html
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