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

Fail To Find Lost Flyers. FAIL TO FIND LOST FLIERS BARROW, Alaska (7P) ^-Scouring the top of the world without finding trace of the 11-day missing soviet transpolar plane, Sir Hubert Wilkins returned to Coppermine, N. W. T., base today in a Russian-owned 17-ton flying boat. Wilkins left Coppermine a...

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Format: Text
Language:English
Published: 1937
Subjects:
lost flyers
Barrow
Alaska
soviet transpolar plane
Hubert Wilkins
Coppermine
N. W. T.
weather
soviet embassy
Washington
D. C.
north pole
Northwest
Pacific > History > 20th century
Aviation
North Pole
Pacific
Wilkins
Online Access:http://content.libraries.wsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/clipping/id/86035
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Summary:Fail To Find Lost Flyers. FAIL TO FIND LOST FLIERS BARROW, Alaska (7P) ^-Scouring the top of the world without finding trace of the 11-day missing soviet transpolar plane, Sir Hubert Wilkins returned to Coppermine, N. W. T., base today in a Russian-owned 17-ton flying boat. Wilkins left Coppermine at 1 a. m., Pacific standard time, kept close to the 148th meridian do which the lost soviet plane was supposed to have followed, sped over the north pole and continued as far as the 78th parallel before bad weather forced him back, he advised the soviet embassy in Washington, D. C.

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