Northwest History. Aviation 8. Rescue & Searching Parties, United States.
Route Airway To Lost Aces: Jimmy Mattern And Joe Crosson In Hunt For Missing Flyers. ROUTE AIRWAY TO LOST ACES Jimmy Mattern and Joe Crosson in Hunt for Missing Flyers. FAIRBANKS, Alaska.—(U.R)—An emergency airway was routed across the Arctic circle today for American and Canadian flyers searching f...
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ftwashstatelib:oai:content.libraries.wsu.edu:clipping/86008 2023-05-15T15:02:14+02:00 Northwest History. Aviation 8. Rescue & Searching Parties, United States. Spokane Press 1937-08-17 Route Airway To Lost Aces: Jimmy Mattern And Joe Crosson In Hunt For Missing Flyers. 1937-08-17 http://content.libraries.wsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/clipping/id/86008 English eng nwh-s-8-1-90 http://content.libraries.wsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/clipping/id/86008 http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0 Copyright not evaluated. Contact original newspaper publisher for copyright information. Northwest History Aviation box 8 Jimmy Mattern Joe Crosson missing flyers Fairbanks Alaska arctic circle American Canadian Russian airplane ice-breaker Krassin wilderness Sigismund Levanevsky United States Moscow Bob Randall Mackenzie air service plane Edmonton Alta. Siberia blizzard Northwest Pacific -- History -- 20th century Aviation Text Clippings 1937 ftwashstatelib 2021-07-26T19:16:20Z Route Airway To Lost Aces: Jimmy Mattern And Joe Crosson In Hunt For Missing Flyers. ROUTE AIRWAY TO LOST ACES Jimmy Mattern and Joe Crosson in Hunt for Missing Flyers. FAIRBANKS, Alaska.—(U.R)—An emergency airway was routed across the Arctic circle today for American and Canadian flyers searching for a lost Russian airplane. Russia's ice-breaker Krassin was ordered to shore several hundred miles north of Alaska on the 148th meridian, where the crew was to establish an airplane base on an The other base will be at the pole, where Russian scientists, encamped at a meteorological station, were instructed to prepare a landing field. PLY WILDERNESS Across this icy wilderness, where Russia's famous Sigismund Levanevsky and five companions disappeared last Friday on a flight from Moscow to the United States, the searching planes will ply. Already in the search were Jimmy Mattern, American round-the-world flyer, and Joe Crosson, Alaskan pilot, both with specially equipped two-motored planes, and Bob Randall, flying a Mackenzie air service plane from Edmonton, Alta. There were reports from Moscow that a Russian station in Siberia was intercepting weak signals on the lost plane's radio wave length. There had been no definite word, however, since two hours after they crossed the north pole Friday morning, when Levanevsky reported "that one of the four motors had stalled and he was flying blindly through heavy clouds. He said there was a blizzard and 60- mile headwind at the pole. Text Arctic North Pole Alaska Siberia Washington State University: WSU Libraries Digital Collections Alta Arctic Breaker ENVELOPE(-67.257,-67.257,-67.874,-67.874) Fairbanks North Pole Pacific Randall ENVELOPE(167.667,167.667,-72.800,-72.800) |
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Route Airway To Lost Aces: Jimmy Mattern And Joe Crosson In Hunt For Missing Flyers. ROUTE AIRWAY TO LOST ACES Jimmy Mattern and Joe Crosson in Hunt for Missing Flyers. FAIRBANKS, Alaska.—(U.R)—An emergency airway was routed across the Arctic circle today for American and Canadian flyers searching for a lost Russian airplane. Russia's ice-breaker Krassin was ordered to shore several hundred miles north of Alaska on the 148th meridian, where the crew was to establish an airplane base on an The other base will be at the pole, where Russian scientists, encamped at a meteorological station, were instructed to prepare a landing field. PLY WILDERNESS Across this icy wilderness, where Russia's famous Sigismund Levanevsky and five companions disappeared last Friday on a flight from Moscow to the United States, the searching planes will ply. Already in the search were Jimmy Mattern, American round-the-world flyer, and Joe Crosson, Alaskan pilot, both with specially equipped two-motored planes, and Bob Randall, flying a Mackenzie air service plane from Edmonton, Alta. There were reports from Moscow that a Russian station in Siberia was intercepting weak signals on the lost plane's radio wave length. There had been no definite word, however, since two hours after they crossed the north pole Friday morning, when Levanevsky reported "that one of the four motors had stalled and he was flying blindly through heavy clouds. He said there was a blizzard and 60- mile headwind at the pole. |
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