Italian aviators Lieutenant Giorgio Abetti, Captain Carlo Tappi, and Captain Silvio Resnati are pictured here at the Aviation Experiment Station in Langley Field, Hampton, VA. The photograph, taken in September 1917, shows the aviators next to a Single Seater Pursuit Machine () aircraft. These Italian aviators made both long and short distance flights in the famous Caproni aeroplane during their time in the United States. This photograph was classified and required approval from the Italian High Commission before release. Laboratory notes from April 15, 1918, indicate that it was taken b
Italian aviators Lieutenant Giorgio Abetti, Captain Carlo Tappi, and Captain Silvio Resnati are pictured here at the Aviation Experiment Station in Langley Field, Hampton, VA. The photograph, taken in September 1917, shows the aviators next to a Single Seater Pursuit Machine () aircraft. These Italian aviators made both long and short distance flights in the famous Caproni aeroplane during their time in the United States. This photograph was classified and required approval from the Italian High Commission before release. Laboratory notes from April 15, 1918, indicate that it was taken by a photographer from the Signal Corps,
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