Northwest History. Alaska. Distance Flights.
Two Russian Fliers Are Forced Back By Bering Strait Fogs: Pair Return To Teller After Taking Off From Nome For Siberia./Weather Interrupts Flight For Third Time. TWO RUSSIAN FLIERS ARE FORGED BACK BY BERMAITFOGS Pair Return to Teller After Taking Off From Nome For Siberia WEATHER INTERRUPTS FLIGHT F...
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ftwashstatelib:oai:content.libraries.wsu.edu:clipping/90301 2023-05-15T15:44:11+02:00 Northwest History. Alaska. Distance Flights. Everett Daily Herald 1936-08-15 Two Russian Fliers Are Forced Back By Bering Strait Fogs: Pair Return To Teller After Taking Off From Nome For Siberia./Weather Interrupts Flight For Third Time. 1936-08-15 http://content.libraries.wsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/clipping/id/90301 English eng nwh-sh-7-13-10-50 http://content.libraries.wsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/clipping/id/90301 http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0 Copyright not evaluated. Contact original newspaper publisher for copyright information. Northwest History. Alaska. Box 7 Russian fliers Bering strait fog Nome Siberia Alaska airplane trade route Victor Levchenko Sigismund Levanesky pontoon-equipped monoplane Teller Carl Ben Eielson Earl Borland furship Nanuk Siberian coast North Cape Whalen Uelen San Diego Calif. Moscow Juneau Bella Bella B. C. Joe Crosson Borland's plane Frank Dorbandt Northwest Pacific -- History -- 20th century Text Clippings 1936 ftwashstatelib 2021-07-26T19:18:07Z Two Russian Fliers Are Forced Back By Bering Strait Fogs: Pair Return To Teller After Taking Off From Nome For Siberia./Weather Interrupts Flight For Third Time. TWO RUSSIAN FLIERS ARE FORGED BACK BY BERMAITFOGS Pair Return to Teller After Taking Off From Nome For Siberia WEATHER INTERRUPTS FLIGHT FOR THIRD TIME NOME, Alaska, Aug. 15-(AP)-Two famous Russian fliers, pioneering an airplane trade route, learned first hand today about Bering strait fogs that sometimes rise 15,000 feet and send airmen to their deaths. Taking off in fair weather near, Nome to cross the strait to Siberia, the Soviet pilots. Sigismund Levanesky and Victor Levchenko, plunged into blinding fog over the water and sent their pontoon-equipped monoplane back-tracking to Alaska yesterday. They landed at Teller, 60 miles north of here, the place from which Carl Ben Eielson and Earl Borland flew in threatening weather November 9, 1929, on a trip to the ice-bound fur ship Nanuk and died in the wreck of their plane on the Siberian coast near North Cape. Levanevsky and for the fog to clear their next objective to their Uelen (also known as Whalen), Siberia. It was the third interruption by weather the Russians encountered since starting a 10,000-mile flight from San Diego, Calif., to Moscow in quest of scientific data about flying conditions in the high North and of a possible new airplane trade route. They had to wait out a fog at Safety bay yesterday after a motor boat got their plane off a sandbar i upon which it ran in an attempted take-off Thursday. On the way from Seattle to Juneau, Alaska, bad weather, forced them down at Bella Bella, B. C, and kept them there several days. During the search of nearly three months before Pilot Joe Crosson of Fairbanks, Alaska, found Eielson and Borland's plane, Russian and American aviators swept s: '.es of the strait, encountering den fogs that drove them to the nearest landing. The late pilot, Frank Dorbandt, who flew in the search, came to report he had climbed to 15,000 feet in milky fog in a futile hunt for clear sky. Ice-strewn waters of contacting warmer air, were blamed for the prevailing fogs in the winter of 1929-30. Text Bering Strait Nome North Cape Alaska Siberia Washington State University: WSU Libraries Digital Collections Bering Strait Borland ENVELOPE(67.750,67.750,-74.417,-74.417) Eielson ENVELOPE(-61.500,-61.500,-70.583,-70.583) Fairbanks Landing The ENVELOPE(161.417,161.417,-78.367,-78.367) Nanuk ENVELOPE(179.256,179.256,71.310,71.310) North Cape ENVELOPE(165.700,165.700,-70.650,-70.650) Pacific Uelen ENVELOPE(-169.810,-169.810,66.160,66.160) |
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Russian fliers Bering strait fog Nome Siberia Alaska airplane trade route Victor Levchenko Sigismund Levanesky pontoon-equipped monoplane Teller Carl Ben Eielson Earl Borland furship Nanuk Siberian coast North Cape Whalen Uelen San Diego Calif. Moscow Juneau Bella Bella B. C. Joe Crosson Borland's plane Frank Dorbandt Northwest Pacific -- History -- 20th century |
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Russian fliers Bering strait fog Nome Siberia Alaska airplane trade route Victor Levchenko Sigismund Levanesky pontoon-equipped monoplane Teller Carl Ben Eielson Earl Borland furship Nanuk Siberian coast North Cape Whalen Uelen San Diego Calif. Moscow Juneau Bella Bella B. C. Joe Crosson Borland's plane Frank Dorbandt Northwest Pacific -- History -- 20th century Northwest History. Alaska. Distance Flights. |
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Russian fliers Bering strait fog Nome Siberia Alaska airplane trade route Victor Levchenko Sigismund Levanesky pontoon-equipped monoplane Teller Carl Ben Eielson Earl Borland furship Nanuk Siberian coast North Cape Whalen Uelen San Diego Calif. Moscow Juneau Bella Bella B. C. Joe Crosson Borland's plane Frank Dorbandt Northwest Pacific -- History -- 20th century |
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Two Russian Fliers Are Forced Back By Bering Strait Fogs: Pair Return To Teller After Taking Off From Nome For Siberia./Weather Interrupts Flight For Third Time. TWO RUSSIAN FLIERS ARE FORGED BACK BY BERMAITFOGS Pair Return to Teller After Taking Off From Nome For Siberia WEATHER INTERRUPTS FLIGHT FOR THIRD TIME NOME, Alaska, Aug. 15-(AP)-Two famous Russian fliers, pioneering an airplane trade route, learned first hand today about Bering strait fogs that sometimes rise 15,000 feet and send airmen to their deaths. Taking off in fair weather near, Nome to cross the strait to Siberia, the Soviet pilots. Sigismund Levanesky and Victor Levchenko, plunged into blinding fog over the water and sent their pontoon-equipped monoplane back-tracking to Alaska yesterday. They landed at Teller, 60 miles north of here, the place from which Carl Ben Eielson and Earl Borland flew in threatening weather November 9, 1929, on a trip to the ice-bound fur ship Nanuk and died in the wreck of their plane on the Siberian coast near North Cape. Levanevsky and for the fog to clear their next objective to their Uelen (also known as Whalen), Siberia. It was the third interruption by weather the Russians encountered since starting a 10,000-mile flight from San Diego, Calif., to Moscow in quest of scientific data about flying conditions in the high North and of a possible new airplane trade route. They had to wait out a fog at Safety bay yesterday after a motor boat got their plane off a sandbar i upon which it ran in an attempted take-off Thursday. On the way from Seattle to Juneau, Alaska, bad weather, forced them down at Bella Bella, B. C, and kept them there several days. During the search of nearly three months before Pilot Joe Crosson of Fairbanks, Alaska, found Eielson and Borland's plane, Russian and American aviators swept s: '.es of the strait, encountering den fogs that drove them to the nearest landing. The late pilot, Frank Dorbandt, who flew in the search, came to report he had climbed to 15,000 feet in milky fog in a futile hunt for clear sky. Ice-strewn waters of contacting warmer air, were blamed for the prevailing fogs in the winter of 1929-30. |
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