Night Lantern Tour Leg 1

Leg 1 — LIPB → LIPH Bolzano, Italy → Treviso, Italy

An opening covert supply flight carrying encrypted communications gear toward hidden resistance contacts in northeastern Italy. The Lantern Network The flight plans existed only on paper. No digital filing. No official schedules. No public record that the aircraft even departed. Bolzano Airport operated beneath blackout conditions while cargo crews loaded sealed communications crates into the aircraft using red floodlights designed to preserve night vision. The instructions were simple: Fly low Stay dark Never transmit unless absolutely necessary Your aircraft lifted into the alpine darkness shortly before midnight while clouds rolled over the Dolomites like moving shadows. The valleys below looked peaceful. Almost untouched. But resistance cells operating farther east had already begun disappearing from the network. Safehouses went silent overnight. Entire courier routes vanished. And now the Night Lantern flights had become their final lifeline.