General Nobile has been engaged in airship work since his en- 

 trance into the Italian army. He designed the dirigible Norge 

 used in the Amundsen-EUsworth-Nobile transpolar flight of 1926, 

 on which he acted as pilot. On this expedition he has written 

 "Navigating the Norge from Rome to the North Pole and Beyond" 

 {Natl. Geogr. Mag., Vol. 52, 1927) and two newspaper articles in the 

 Corriere delta Sera, Milan, June 24 and September 9, 1926. 



