Balbo's North Atlantic Flight in 1933 
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The Belloni bag

From "La centuria alata" by Italo Balbo:

"The" Belloni sack "already experimented with luck at La Spezia, allows it to remain afloat, even without moving, for a long time.It consists of air bags that swell with breath in short instants.It is impenetrable to cold and damp, it can hold a little food in the inside pockets, it has a hood with which the head can also be protected If, after a lucky landing, the crews leave the damaged equipment, they could stay in the water for the time necessary for emergency aid to arrive.

Curious fate then had this "bag"! Just on the eve of the Atlantic stage in which it should have served the most, in Reykjavik, it was inexorably discharged, along with all other non-essential objects, whose weight forced us to prolong the time of take-off !. Man proposes and ... the Atlantic has. "

Following some images; click to enlarge

Antisubmarine atlantic suit
Antisubmarine atlantic suit
Antisubmarine atlantic suit
Antisubmarine atlantic suit
Antisubmarine Atlantic suit
Antisubmarine Atlantic suit