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

Poor Weather Delaying Search. POOR WEATHER DELAYING SEARCH FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Jan. 19. (/P) - Search for the five-month-missing soviet transpolar flyers was delayed another month today as poor weather prevented any more moonlight flights during the January full Sir George Hubert Wilkins, noted explo...

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Language:English
Published: 1938
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Online Access:http://content.libraries.wsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/clipping/id/86051
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Summary:Poor Weather Delaying Search. POOR WEATHER DELAYING SEARCH FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Jan. 19. (/P) - Search for the five-month-missing soviet transpolar flyers was delayed another month today as poor weather prevented any more moonlight flights during the January full Sir George Hubert Wilkins, noted explorer, was kept aground at his Aklavik, N. W. T., base last night by heavy clouds. He had planned his second long distance moonlight flight within five days in search of Sigismund Levaneffsky and his five companions, last heard from August 13.