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

Alaskan Flight Success: Wilkins' Plane History Ready Soon To Go To Point Barrow. ALASKAN FLIGHT SUCCESS Wilkins' Plane Ready Soon To Go To Point Barrow. By Frederic Lewis Earp. Special Correspondent of the Spokesman-Review and the North American Newspaper Alliance with the Detroit Arctic E...

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Format: Text
Language:English
Published: 1926
Subjects:
Alaskan Flight
Point Barrow
Frederic Lewis Earp
North American Newspaper Alliance
Detroit Arctic Expedition
Fairbanks
single-motored monoplane
Ben Eielson
George Hubert Wilkins
exploration
polar basin
Northwest
Pacific > History > 20th century
Aviation
Arctic
Detroit
Eielson
Landing The
Pacific
Wilkins
Barrow
Alaska
Online Access:http://content.libraries.wsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/clipping/id/86134
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Summary:Alaskan Flight Success: Wilkins' Plane History Ready Soon To Go To Point Barrow. ALASKAN FLIGHT SUCCESS Wilkins' Plane Ready Soon To Go To Point Barrow. By Frederic Lewis Earp. Special Correspondent of the Spokesman-Review and the North American Newspaper Alliance with the Detroit Arctic Expedition. FAIRBANKS, Alaska, March 29. --The single-motored monoplane Alaskan of the Detroit arctic expedition made a successful trial flight here this afternoon lasting 1 hour 40 minutes. Ben Eielson, one of the pilots flew the ship, with Captain George Hubert Wilkins, the commander, in the cockpit. Eielson made a perfect landing. The plane is to leave in a few days for Point Barrow with the first load of gasoline and other supplies for the expedition's flights of exploration over the unknown polar basin.

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