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umberto nobile

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No⋅bi⋅le

[naw-bee-le]
–noun
Um⋅ber⋅to [oom-ber-taw] , 1885–1978, Italian aeronautical engineer and arctic explorer.
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No·bi·le   (nō'bə-lā, -bē-lě)   
Italian aeronautical engineer and Arctic explorer who designed several airships, including the semirigid dirigible Norge in which he flew over the North Pole with Roald Amundsen (1926).
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