North Pole of General Nobile la off Spitzbergen on May 25, There followed a series of tempts at rescue in which the greatest heroism was displayed. Another Italian flying exploit was the flight in an aeroplane from Rome to Brazil in the Savoia-61, The aeroplane left Rome on July 4 and reached Brazil on July 7, after a world's record for non-stop flights. The outstanding aerial event of the year was, however, the crossing of the North Atlantic from east to west by the German monoplane Bremen, 'The Bremen lett Germany on March 26 for Ireland, and took off from Ireland' on April 12, coming. down at Greenly Island off the coast of Newfoundland on April 13, The German Graf Zeppelin flew from Germany to America on October 11, and returned on October 29, Miss Amelia Bar-hart was the first woman flier to eross the Atlantic in the joroplane Friendship on June
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