Northwest History. Alaska. Aviation Blunt, Harry L.

• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1934
• Subjects: Anchorage; Alaska; Fairbanks; North Cape; Siberia; Russians; Pilot Harry Blunt; arctic air ace; Sprague; Wash.; radio-equipped closed cabin plane; Pacific-Alaska Airways; Pan-American Airways; Northwest; Pacific > History > 20th century; Arctic; Pacific
• Online Access: http://content.libraries.wsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/clipping/id/89644

Arctic Air Ace To Aid. Arctic Air Ace to Aid. ANCHORAGE, Alaska, March 5. (/P) —Under orders to proceed to Fairbanks' and prepare for a flight to North Cape, Siberia, there to attempt to rescue members of a party of 100 Russians marooned on the ice floes to the northwest, Pilot Harry Blunt, famed arctic air ace, left here today. His former home was at Sprague, Wash. The thermometer was 18 degrees below zero when he took off. Blunt took with him 600 pounds of radio equipment from here. He was flying a radio-equipped closed cabin plane, in which several passengers may be carried. He is with the Pacific-Alaska Airways, a branch of Pan-American Airways, and is based here.