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

• 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

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.