Nortwest History. Aviation 8/ test. Rescue and Searching Parties, United States.

• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1924
• Subjects: Fairbanks; Alaska; airplaines; Noel Wien; Russell Merrill; Wiseman; flight; Point Barrow; Fox Film Party; Matt Nieminen; Anchorage Air Transport company; Ralph Wien; plane; Northwest; Pacific > History > 20th century; Aviation; Anchorage; Arctic; Pacific; Barrow; Nome
• Online Access: http://content.libraries.wsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/clipping/id/85755

Planes to Seek Aviators: Ships Will Search Arctic Tundras for Missing film Party. PLANES TO SEEK AVIATORS Ships Will Search Arctic Tundras for issing Film Party. Fairbanks, Alaska, May 23. - To searcg the dreary artcic tundras fro two airplaines piloted by Noel Wien and Russell Merrill, which left Wiseman May 11 for a proposed round-trip flight to Point barrow with a Fox Film party, Matt Nieminen, copilot of merrill in the Anchorage Air Transport company, was prepapring today to takeoff for Point barrw in a cabin plane, said to be the speediest in Alaska. Ralph Wien, brother to Noel, and a student pilot, was preparing to hop off for Nome With mail, in accordance with a territorial subsidy contract. The course of both planes coincides with that of the missing planes for some distance over a difficult terrain.