Northwest History. Aviation 8. Wilkins' Expedition, United States.

• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1926
• Subjects: Point Barrow; Geroge H. Wilkins; Lanphier; Wiseley; Fairbanks; North American Newspaper Alliance; Detroit Arctic Expedition; snow-covered tundra; visibility; white wilderness; mist-covered mountain barrier; Destroiter; Endicott mountain; radio; Northwest; Pacific > History > 20th century; Aviation; Arctic; Detroit; Pacific; Wilkins; eskimo*; Tundra
• Online Access: http://content.libraries.wsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/clipping/id/86097

Launch Long Hop To Point Barrow: Radio Traces Wilkins, Lanphier and Wiseley 300 Miles on Trip./Plane Ran Like Watch./Eskimos At Barrow Stand Guard Through Long Days To Sight Ship. LAUNCH LONG HOP TO POINT BARROW Radio Traces Wilkins, Lanphier and Wiseley 300 Miles on Trip. PLANE RAN LIKE WATCH Through Long Days to Sight Ship. (By Cantata G. H. Wilkino. commander Detroit Arctic expedition, Special to The Spokesman-Review and North American Newspaper Alliance. Copyright, 1926.) ABOARD MONOPLANE DEROITER, En Route to Point Barrow, May 8.— (By Radio to Fairbanks) 11:15 A. M. —We successfully crossed the Endicott mountains at It o'clock, flying high. The plane Is now passing over the flat snow-covered tundra and the visibility is such that we can see almost to Barrow. The plane is functioning perfectly and we are making fast time. We have traveled more than 300 miles since hopping oft at Fairbanks. Ahead and to right and left of us is the white wilderness and back of us the mlst-covered mountain barrier.