07 occurred October 1907: Start of air use for naval exploration

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eggio Calabria the ram torpedo boat Elba (commander, captain of frigate Ernesto Solari), an aerostatic vessel equipped with braked balloons - a spherical ball and a drachen - equipped with a spaceship for an observer, raises at dawn the two balloons with task of visual and photographic exploration keeping them in the air until sunset.

The debut of the two aerostats on the sea constituted a primum in the naval field and even if the evaluation of the related experiments gave mixed results, the Navy began to the specificities of the third dimension.

The full cooperation of the Army with the Brigata specialisti del Genio managed the "lightest of the air" in Italy and with which the Navy had been collaborating with its own men and projects for some time.

Source: Military Navy