Northwest History. Aviation 8. Rescue & Searching Parties, United States.
Fogs Fade Away, Flyers Perk Up: Hope To Begin Hunt For Missing Russian Airmen In Earnest Soon. FOGS FADE AWAY, FLYERS PERK UP Hope to Begin Hunt for Missing Russian Airmen in Earnest Soon. BARROW, Alaska, Aug. 24. (/P)—Clearing weather in the arctic today encouraged aviators here to believe they soo...
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ftwashstatelib:oai:content.libraries.wsu.edu:clipping/86036 2023-05-15T14:55:23+02:00 Northwest History. Aviation 8. Rescue & Searching Parties, United States. Spokesman Review 1937-08-24 Fogs Fade Away, Flyers Perk Up: Hope To Begin Hunt For Missing Russian Airmen In Earnest Soon. 1937-08-24 http://content.libraries.wsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/clipping/id/86036 English eng nwh-s-8-1-119 http://content.libraries.wsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/clipping/id/86036 http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0 Copyright not evaluated. Contact original newspaper publisher for copyright information. Northwest History Aviation box 8 fog flyers Russian airmen Barrow Alaska arctic aviators polar ice fields soviet north pole Moscow Jimmie Mattern Fairbanks soviet transpolar flyers Levaneffsky King Baird Sikorsky Amphibian plane Anacortes Wash. Burwash Landing Y. T. Whitehorse S. A. Smirnov M. L. Benedum Pittsburgh Northwest Pacific -- History -- 20th century Aviation Text Clippings 1937 ftwashstatelib 2021-07-26T19:16:20Z Fogs Fade Away, Flyers Perk Up: Hope To Begin Hunt For Missing Russian Airmen In Earnest Soon. FOGS FADE AWAY, FLYERS PERK UP Hope to Begin Hunt for Missing Russian Airmen in Earnest Soon. BARROW, Alaska, Aug. 24. (/P)—Clearing weather in the arctic today encouraged aviators here to believe they soon would be able to fly over the polar ice fields in search of six lost soviet airmen. Heavy fogs, which kept planes grounded at Barrow this week, were dissipating. The soviet north pole camp informed Moscow by wireless the temperature had dropped below freezing, rain ceased and murky skies cleared. Pilot Jimmie Mattern dipped the wings of his giant airplane over this arctic settlement and flew to Fairbanks today to arrange further details of a search for the soviet transpolar flyers. At Moscow three soviet flyers rushed preparations for a search for Levaneffsky and his five companions. Approach of the arctic winter caused them to hasten. Baird Held Up. Pilot King Baird in a Sikorsky Amphibian plane, en route from Anacortes, Wash., to Fairbanks to participate in the search, was halted by fogs at Burwash Landing, Y. T. He arrived there from Whitehorse today. S. A. Smirnov, soviet radio engineer, waited at Fairbanks for Baird's arrival. Present plans called for Smirnov and Baird to fly to Barrow with radio equipment the latter was carrying. It was understood the equipment- was intended for Levaneffsky, probably to be dropped by parachute. M; L. Benedum, Pittsburgh oil millionaire, received an offer today from the soviet government to share expense of Jimmie Mattern's attempt to find the six missing Russian polar flyers. Benedum, who is backing Mattern's sky hunt, said he received a telephone call from the soviet embassy at Washington. "They told me they appreciated everything that Jimmy Mattern has done. Text Arctic Barrow North Pole Alaska Washington State University: WSU Libraries Digital Collections Arctic Burwash Landing ENVELOPE(-138.996,-138.996,61.355,61.355) Fairbanks North Pole Pacific Sikorsky ENVELOPE(-63.450,-63.450,-74.767,-74.767) |
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fog flyers Russian airmen Barrow Alaska arctic aviators polar ice fields soviet north pole Moscow Jimmie Mattern Fairbanks soviet transpolar flyers Levaneffsky King Baird Sikorsky Amphibian plane Anacortes Wash. Burwash Landing Y. T. Whitehorse S. A. Smirnov M. L. Benedum Pittsburgh Northwest Pacific -- History -- 20th century Aviation Northwest History. Aviation 8. Rescue & Searching Parties, United States. |
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fog flyers Russian airmen Barrow Alaska arctic aviators polar ice fields soviet north pole Moscow Jimmie Mattern Fairbanks soviet transpolar flyers Levaneffsky King Baird Sikorsky Amphibian plane Anacortes Wash. Burwash Landing Y. T. Whitehorse S. A. Smirnov M. L. Benedum Pittsburgh Northwest Pacific -- History -- 20th century Aviation |
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Fogs Fade Away, Flyers Perk Up: Hope To Begin Hunt For Missing Russian Airmen In Earnest Soon. FOGS FADE AWAY, FLYERS PERK UP Hope to Begin Hunt for Missing Russian Airmen in Earnest Soon. BARROW, Alaska, Aug. 24. (/P)—Clearing weather in the arctic today encouraged aviators here to believe they soon would be able to fly over the polar ice fields in search of six lost soviet airmen. Heavy fogs, which kept planes grounded at Barrow this week, were dissipating. The soviet north pole camp informed Moscow by wireless the temperature had dropped below freezing, rain ceased and murky skies cleared. Pilot Jimmie Mattern dipped the wings of his giant airplane over this arctic settlement and flew to Fairbanks today to arrange further details of a search for the soviet transpolar flyers. At Moscow three soviet flyers rushed preparations for a search for Levaneffsky and his five companions. Approach of the arctic winter caused them to hasten. Baird Held Up. Pilot King Baird in a Sikorsky Amphibian plane, en route from Anacortes, Wash., to Fairbanks to participate in the search, was halted by fogs at Burwash Landing, Y. T. He arrived there from Whitehorse today. S. A. Smirnov, soviet radio engineer, waited at Fairbanks for Baird's arrival. Present plans called for Smirnov and Baird to fly to Barrow with radio equipment the latter was carrying. It was understood the equipment- was intended for Levaneffsky, probably to be dropped by parachute. M; L. Benedum, Pittsburgh oil millionaire, received an offer today from the soviet government to share expense of Jimmie Mattern's attempt to find the six missing Russian polar flyers. Benedum, who is backing Mattern's sky hunt, said he received a telephone call from the soviet embassy at Washington. "They told me they appreciated everything that Jimmy Mattern has done. |
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