The dream of any aviator of the western world of the 1920s and 1930s was to accomplish the transatlantic crossing aboard an airplane, much like the aspiration of a navigator Christopher Colombus was to cross the same ocean by boat. In 1927, Charles Lindbergh amazed the world by crossing the atlantic solo and non-stop. Only six years later, Italo Balbo commanded the atlantic crossing of 24 seaplanes piloted by italians. This crossing, which did not bring technological innovati