Aviation in Arctic North America and Greenland
Writing as long ago as 1922, Dr Vilhjalmur Stefansson commented: “There are few nowadays who do not agree that the world is round, but there are almost equally few who apply the principle of the world's roundness consistently when they think about going from place to place.” Twenty-three years...
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crcambridgeupr:10.1017/s0032247400037591 2024-03-03T08:41:29+00:00 Aviation in Arctic North America and Greenland Lloyd, Trevor 1948 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0032247400037591 https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0032247400037591 en eng Cambridge University Press (CUP) https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms Polar Record volume 5, issue 35-36, page 163-171 ISSN 0032-2474 1475-3057 General Earth and Planetary Sciences Ecology Geography, Planning and Development journal-article 1948 crcambridgeupr https://doi.org/10.1017/s0032247400037591 2024-02-08T08:26:38Z Writing as long ago as 1922, Dr Vilhjalmur Stefansson commented: “There are few nowadays who do not agree that the world is round, but there are almost equally few who apply the principle of the world's roundness consistently when they think about going from place to place.” Twenty-three years later, he returned to the same question, with a statement that, far from sounding prophetic, was all too obvious. “If you shoot robot bombs (as Heaven preserve us from ever doing), they will cross the Arctic on their way from London to Seattle, from Peiping to New York, from San Francisco to. Moscow. That is the way the bombers will fly, if we ever permit them to.” Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Greenland Polar Record Cambridge University Press Arctic Greenland Stefansson ENVELOPE(-62.417,-62.417,-69.467,-69.467) Polar Record 5 35-36 163 171 |
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Writing as long ago as 1922, Dr Vilhjalmur Stefansson commented: “There are few nowadays who do not agree that the world is round, but there are almost equally few who apply the principle of the world's roundness consistently when they think about going from place to place.” Twenty-three years later, he returned to the same question, with a statement that, far from sounding prophetic, was all too obvious. “If you shoot robot bombs (as Heaven preserve us from ever doing), they will cross the Arctic on their way from London to Seattle, from Peiping to New York, from San Francisco to. Moscow. That is the way the bombers will fly, if we ever permit them to.” |
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Aviation in Arctic North America and Greenland |
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