Balbo

[bahl-baw]

noun

1. Italo 1896–1940, Italian aviator, general, and statesman.

Balbo

/ ˈbalbo /

noun

1. Italo (ˈitalo). 1896–1940, Italian Fascist politician and airman: minister of aviation (1929–33)

Example Sentences

Newey effectively worked only three days a week, Horner would say, bigging up the roles of Wache and the technical leadership team around him, especially head of aerodynamics Enrico Balbo.

From BBC

Perhaps Gerrit Cole wouldn’t have slept on covering first base in that same fateful fifth inning if he’d been able to mull his options by scratching an Italo Balbo beard.

From Los Angeles Times

Horner has tended from time to time in recent years to downplay Newey's influence, and talk up that of technical director Pierre Wache and aerodynamics chief Enrico Balbo.

From BBC

Horner has spent time extolling the virtues of head of aerodynamics Enrico Balbo, lead performance engineer Ben Waterhouse and chief designer Craig Skinner.

From BBC

Monuments marked for removal included, among others, an 2,000 Roman column erected to commemorate fascist Italian aviator Italo Balbo’s 1933 transatlantic flight to Chicago, a statue of Union Gen. Philip Sheridan over his actions in the Indian Wars, and reliefs on the DuSable bridge that “place the history of Chicago and the Battle of Fort Dearborn within an allegorical narrative of the triumph of Western civilization.”

From Washington Times