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

• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1938
• Subjects: Russian flyers; Fairbanks; Alaska; George Hubert Wilkins; Aklavik; N. W. T.; Missing Soviet transpolar flyers; radio; Air Commodore Herbert Hollick-Kenyon; temperature; Northwest; Pacific > History > 20th century; Aviation; Arctic; hollick-Kenyon; Kenyon; North Pole; Pacific; Wilkins
• Online Access: http://content.libraries.wsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/clipping/id/86125

Hunt For Russian Flyers Is Resumed. Hunt for Russian Flyers Is Resumed FAIRBANKS, Alaska, .Jan. 15. (/P)—After cruising by arctic moonlight to within 400 miles of the north pole, Sir George Hubert Wilkins and a' companion returned to Aklavik, N. W. T., at 3:35 a. m. (P. S. T.) today without reporting sighting the missing soviet transpolar flyers. Wilkins reported by radio to Fairbanks that at midnight, Pacific standard time, his Russian-chartered plane was at latitude 85:30 along the 140th meridian, more than 1000 miles north of Aklavik. The plane's cruising radius is about 2500 miles. Wilkins, handling the plane's radio while Air Commodore Herbert Hollick-Kenyon was at the controls, messaged there were scattered clouds and frost particles in the air and that the temperature at 4000 feet was zero. "Bright moon, some haze, visibility two miles . . ." he messaged.