Francesco de Pinedo

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Francesco de Pinedo (born February 16, 1890 in Naples , † September 2, 1933 near New York , NY ) was an Italian aviation pioneer and pilot in the Italian Air Force .

Life

At the age of 18, De Pinedo joined the Italian Navy , where he joined the Navy Air Force after six years of service and completed his pilot training there. As a pilot he also took part in the First World War. After Arturo Ferrarin flew from Italy to Japan and back in 1920 , De Pinedo also planned a long-haul flight. On April 20, 1925, he flew in a Savoia-Marchetti S. 16 from Sesto Calende to Tokyo , then to Australia and back to Italy. On the 34,000 mile route, he and his mechanic Ernesto Campanelli repeatedly had to fix technical problems on the p. 16, a seaplane, and to make several detours due to the sometimes unfavorable weather. Upon his return, King Victor Emmanuel III. De Pinedo in the nobility and also the Fédération Internationale Aéronautique awarded him a high order. Shortly afterwards, De Pinedo flew south along the West African coast, then across the Atlantic to Brazil and Argentina and u. a. via the Brazilian rainforest to the USA and Canada . He returned to Italy via the North Atlantic. He covered a total of 27,000 miles on the flight across four continents .

Francesco De Pinedo had a fatal accident on another long-haul flight in Floyd-Bennet (New York) in 1933.

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SURNAME De Pinedo, Francesco
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian aviation pioneer and pilot in the Italian Air Force
DATE OF BIRTH February 16, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Naples
DATE OF DEATH September 2, 1933
Place of death new York