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HAB911

(10,606 posts)
Fri May 15, 2026, 07:52 AM May 15

Off my belly, looking skyward

Atlas Air Cargo 747 Miami to Anchorage @40k ft and 17nm out. 1600mm 1/1000sec, f/18, ISO1400
Love those "Queen of the Skies" 747s

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Off my belly, looking skyward (Original Post) HAB911 May 15 OP
I read an article about Air Marshal Italo Balbo and looked up some of the airplanes Beringia May 15 #1
whoa HAB911 May 15 #2
Love your skyward photos, my dear HAB911! These are great. CaliforniaPeggy May 15 #3

Beringia

(5,641 posts)
1. I read an article about Air Marshal Italo Balbo and looked up some of the airplanes
Fri May 15, 2026, 08:26 AM
May 15



Italian dictator Benito Mussolini gifted the Balbo Monument to the city during the 1933-1934 “A Century of Progress” World’s Fair. It commemorates a historic transatlantic flight by Italian Air Marshal Italo Balbo, who led a squadron of 24 Savoia-Marchetti seaplanes from Italy to a spectacular landing on Chicago’s lakefront.


HAB911

(10,606 posts)
2. whoa
Fri May 15, 2026, 08:38 AM
May 15

guess I've never seen one of those planes before. across the Atlantic in an early single engine, the thought makes me nervous!

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