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Lieut. Commander Richard E. Byrd of the Naval air unit that was assigned to accompany MacMillan and that flew three Leoning Amphibian planes a total of 5,300 miles over perilous ice-lands: "I think that again the great National Geographic Society has fathered an expedition that has contributed scientific knowledge to the world." He particularized: experience with radio and solar compasses, data on flying conditions in frigid air and over snow-covered terrain. He warmly complimented the men under him on their courage and discipline, citing Mechanic Bennett's heroism in climbing out on a wing to prevent...
Headwinds buffeted the Bowdoin and Peary as they sought to leave Etah harbor. They got only to Igloo-da-Houny, across Booth Sound. MacMillan made a last flight in one of the Navy amphibian planes, to see Dog-Driver E-took-a-shoo, a friend, bringing him back to the anchored Bowdoin by air. Next day another start toward Baffin Bay was made, through blinding fog and raging blizzard. In Murchison Sound, the Bowdoin grounded her oaken keel on a rock ledge and stuck fast. The Peary sidled alongside to pass a towline and 34 steel drums of gasoline were...
...Navy Department, following experienced judgment forbids further flights out of Etah, Greenland, by the amphibian planes it had detailed to cooperate with Exporer MacMillan in his search for the Fabulous continent, "Crocker Land," which Admiral Peary thought he saw looming up west of craggy Cape Hubbard. (TIME, June...
...experiment in aviation was made, last week, to see if it were practicable to eliminate airdrome landings at both ends of the Paris-London air line. An amphibian plane took off the Seine, landed at Lympne for customs, took off again and landed on the Thames at Fulham in three hours and a half. The experiment proved that one hour and much expense can be saved by the new route, as the air companies have to provide automobiles to take passengers from the cities to the outlying airdromes...
Amidst much making of speeches, tooting of whistles, playing of bands and waving of flags, the Bowdoin and the Peary sailed out of Wiscasset Harbor, Me., last week, taking Commander MacMillan, Lieutenant Commander Byrd, 38 others and three amphibian planes north to Etah, Greenland, whence the Polar regions are to be charted by the airmen...