Northwest History. Aviation 8. Rescue & Searching Parties, United States.

• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1937
• Subjects: Russia; flying boat; Washington; Vilhjalmur Stefansson; the Explorers' club; New York; soviet embassy; North Beach airport; N. Y.; soviet transpolar flyers; Eskimos; Fairbanks; Barter island; northern Alaska coast; Bob Randall; Canadian airman; parka-clad natives; Northwest; Pacific > History > 20th century; Aviation; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; North Beach; Pacific; Parka; Randall; Stefansson; Barter Island; eskimo*; Alaska
• Online Access: http://content.libraries.wsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/clipping/id/86013

Russia Obtains Big Flying Boat. RUSSIA OBTAINS BIG FLYING BOAT WASHINGTON, Aug. 18. (/P)~ Vilhjalmur Stefansson, president of the Explorers' club, New York, said today a large flying boat obtained by the soviet embassy here probably would take off from North Beach airport, N. Y., tomorrow in qu...