Nobel Umberto Biography

In his youth, Titin led a hungry homeless existence on the streets of Rome. But one of the evenings, she was lucky - she met the pioneer of the airships of Umberto Nobile. Since then, Titin named after the Italian song and Nobile have been inseparable, sharing dangers, adventure and, in the end, dishonor. Titin and Nobel Together Titin and Nobel were so close that in the year Nobile made a strange and reckless decision - to take his five -kilogram favorite into a historical flight to the North Pole on the airship of his own structure.

It seemed that little Titin did not take up much space. But the famous Norwegian polar explorer Rual Amundsen in sharp, and even rude expressions said that on a aircraft with a crew of 16 people, already such a tightness that people would not even have the opportunity to sit down.

Only Titin, who arranged on a pile of provisions, was able to take a sitting position. The postcard of those years of the Distribution Little Dog was in the spotlight of the press. In the messages from the airship, details were regularly given about the conditions of the existence of Titine, including, for example, that it wears a red woolen knitted jacket. On the pages of New York Times even appeared her biography.

After returning, she went on a world tour with Nobile and met with such famous people as Rudolph Valentino and Benito Mussolini. The great air heaps loved his dog so much that he refused to be photographed without it. But Titine had to share with his owner not only success, but also failure. Several people died. The surviving crew members gathered surviving supplies and set up a camp among the ice, waiting for help.

The salvation of Titin after nine days of the distress was accepted by one of the Soviet radio amateurs. A large -scale rescue operation was deployed. It was attended by one and a half thousand people, ships and aircraft of different countries. He invited Nobile to take the only place to fly to the Italian floating base. Grasping his permanent companion, Foxsterier Titin, he climbed into the cabin.

The surviving members of the crew had to spend several weeks in the Arctic before they were saved. On an ice floe, the crew members were criticized in the press for his act, especially in Italy, where his successes, as well as disagreements with the fascist regime of Mussolini made him many envious and enemies. The catastrophe of Italy and the death of several polar explorers - a tragedy, but in the eyes of the public it was even worse that Nobile left the team and flew first.

And special irritation was caused by the fact that he showed more care of the dog than about comrades. Then he, as a designer of air ships, went to the Soviet Union to help our engineers create a good airship. And when the ship was built, he flew on it more than once, conveying his rich experience of the pilot to Soviet balloonists. Nobile spent about five years in our country.

During the rest hours, he walked along the wooden sidewalks of the village near Moscow, in which there was a design bureau, accompanied by his beloved dog Titina. Local boys often teased Titin to see her golden jaw in one of the expeditions, the dog fell ill with scurvy and she had all her teeth. She was with Nobile in all his flights. I was with him on the ice. Nobile considered her his living talisman.

He endlessly trusted her instinct, and if Titin refused to enter the airship gondola with him, he used to cancel the flight. Nobile believed that he had suffered a disaster in the Arctic precisely because he did not obey his living talisman. In the year, he returned to Italy, but he could not get along with the fascist regime and went to the United States three years later.

Umberto Nobile returned to his homeland during World War II. He was destined to live another 36 years. He died a very old man, having managed to write several books, including his journey to the North Pole, so tragically completed. You can subscribe to new articles by links below :.