Northwest History. Alaska. Distance Flights.

• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1937
• Subjects: pole flyers; Alaska; Washington; Russian transpolar flight; Moscow; the United States; weather conditions; North Pole; the Old and New Worlds; Sigismund Levanesky; soviet pilot; nonstop flight; Vancouver; Wash.; San Jacinto; Calif.; Fairbanks; Canada; New York City; Chicago; Northwest; Pacific > History > 20th century; Pacific
• Online Access: http://content.libraries.wsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/clipping/id/90309

Pole Flyers Plan Alaska Stop. Pole Flyers Plan Alaska Stop WASHINGTON, July 31.—(I.N.S.)— The third Russian transpolar flight, linking Moscow with the United States, is scheduled to begin tomorrow or Monday, depending on weather conditions, it was learned here today. This newest of flights across the North Pole between the Old and New Worlds is expected to be made in approximately thirty hours in a fast multi-motor transport piloted by Sigismund Levanevsky, famed Soviet pilot, and a crew of four or five men. Instead of making a nonstop flight, as in the first two instances in which Soviet ships flew from Moscow to Vancouver, Wash., and San Jacinto, Calif., respectively, Levanevsky is scheduled to stop at Fairbanks, Alaska, midway in the 6,500-mile hop for refueling. A group of Russian officials have been at the Alaska town for a number of days completing arrangements for the refueling. Levanevsky's flight may take him from Moscow directly across the pole to Fairbanks and then southeastward across Canada to New York City. An alternate itinerary would land him at Chicago.