A collection of photogrpahs of this long-distance flight pilot in conversation with General Italo Balleo prior to his 'four continents' flight, with his crew Carlo Del Prete and Vitale Zacchette aboard the Savoia-Marchetti 5.55 flying boat 'Santa-Maria'; other images illustrate the welcome received at Ostia's harbour outside Rome on 16th June 1927 after a flight of 29,180 miles; together with a group of photographs of a Greenland flight, 35 images