FREEDOM OF ROME
TO MARQUIS DE PINEDO
BRILLIANT ITALIAN AVIATOR.
(UNITED ASSOCIATION—COMItIOHT.) (REUTERS IELEUHA.M.) (Received 14th Nov., 9 a.m'.l, EOME, 13th November. Sigtiof Mussolini and many notables were present at a brilliant reception id the capital, giving the freedom of the City to the Italian aviator, the Marquii De Pinedo. v
Major the Marquis de Pinedo, Chief of Air Staff of the Italian Military Air Service) ha» just completed the longest single individual flight with one machine on record, by dying to Japan via Australia and back via India. The total length ol flight was over 30,000 1 miles. It was carried out on a Standard Savoia 5.16 flying-boat, fitted with a 450 h,p. Lorraine-Dietrich engine. The technical journal "Flight" on the arrival of de Pinedo in Japan on 26th September, described the flight ds the '"most remarkable aerial achieveihent of recant times." De Pinedo was accompanied only by his mechanic, Ernest Campanolli, carried a minimum of equipment and relied throughout the entire journey on just the ordinary facilities existing at the various points of call. Though the machine was purely a flying-boat, without landing attachment for terra finna, ho made several long traverses overland, including 600 miles across India, without a stop. The following is the itinerary of his round trip to Japan : —Left Eomo on 21st April, arrived Karachi (India) sth May, via Brindisi, Lacos, Bagdad, Buehire, Charbar; Bombay { Bth May; Cocanada 11th May, Calcutta 12th Mtiy; Akynb 13th May.: Rangoon 14th May; Tavoy 18th May: Mergin 21st .May, I'orket (Siam) 22nd May; Peuang" 23rd Slay; Singapore 24th May; Batavia 26th May; Surabaya 27th May; Sumbawa 27th May; Kopary 29th May; Broomc 31st May; Carnaroon 2nd June; Burbury 4th Junoj Albany sth June; Israelite Bay 6th June; Adelaide Bth June; Melbourne 10th June; Sydney 16th June; Brisbane 6tll August, Eockhampton 7th August; Townsville 10th August; Innispail 11th August; Cooktown 12th August; Thurs' day Island 13th August; Mcrauke, Dutch New Guinea,' Dobo (Arm Islandfc), Amboyna (Molucca). Menado (Celebers), Mendano, Cebu (Phillipine*), Atrtnonan 23rd August; Manila 27th August; Aparri 16th September; Tamru 19th September; Shanghai 21sfe September; Mokpo, Koreb, 23rd September; Yamakawa 24th September; Knyoshima 25th September;' Tokio 26th September.
He flew back via Singapore and In' dia in less than a month.
FREEDOM OF ROME
Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 118, 14 November 1925, Page 7
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