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...little Moth planes were out of commission.) Then in London, great activity began. Capt. Ralph Raynor of the British Royal Signal Corps, who is engaged to marry young Courtauld's sister, organized a relief expedition with the unlimited backing of the elder Courtauld. He hired Capt. Albin Ahrenberg, Swedish flyer who last year attempted an Arctic flight to the U. S., to fly to the rescue in a big Junkers seaplane. Last week Capt. Ahrenberg flew over the Greenland ice cap, saw below him a sturdy party of four men following a dog team. Leader Watkins had succeeded...
Wegener. Capt. Ahrenberg then planned to fly in search of Professor Alfred Wegener, head of a German expedition farther north in Greenland, whose mission was similar to that of the British party. Professor Wegener set out from his base last September to take supplies to two men who, like Courtauld, were stationed at a central observation camp on the ice cap. Professor Wegener never returned. Just as Capt. Ahrenberg was about to join the search last week, word was received from a relief expedition which had penetrated to the camp with a powerful portable radio. The occupants of the camp...
...ever flown from Greenland across the Davis Strait to Baffin Land.) It is recalled that in 1924 the U. S. Army round-the-world flyers required 19 days to pierce the fogs between Keland and Frederiksdal, on the south coast of Greenland; and that last summer Capt. A. Ahrenberg finally abandoned an attempted Sweden-to-New York flight after taking a month between Sweden and Greenland...
...initiator was the Swedish seaplane Sverige, a Junkers like the Bremen of past fame. The Sverige's crew were Captain Albin Ahrenberg, Lieut. Axel Flodin and Mechanic Robert Ljunglund. Their course was to include stops at Stockholm (Sweden), Reykjavik (Iceland), Ivigtut (Greenland), Anticosti Island (Quebec), New York. Last week the Swedes got to Reykjavik, where a broken oil line forced their premature landing and delayed, at least, their completing the trip...
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