Northwest History. Aviation 8. Wilkins' Expedition, United States.

• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1926
• Subjects: Point Barrow; Frederic Lewis Earp.; correspondent; North American Newspaper Alliance; Detroit Arctic Expedition; Fairbanks; Alaska; the monoplane Detroiter; arctic circle; Yukon river; Thomas G. Lanphier; Charles M. Wiseley; radio signals; government telegraph detachment; cargo weight; weather condition; Andy Hufford; Howard Mason; important message; Robert Waskey; Sandy Smith; local wireless sets; Eskimo runner; Arctic coast; the polar ice pack; north pole; Spitzbergen; gasoline supply; mission; navigating instruments; earth inductor compass; Northwest; Pacific > History > 20th century; Aviation; Arctic; Detroit; North Pole; Pacific; Wilkins; Yukon; Barrow; eskimo*
• Online Access: http://content.libraries.wsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/clipping/id/85707

Big Plane Fails To Reach Barrow: Three-Motored Ship Returns To Fairbanks With Compass And Engine Wrong./Load Is Lightened./Soggy Field Makes Take-Off Difficult And Supplies Are Left Behind.