Word: beringer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fourteen times has the North Atlantic been spanned nonstop by airplanes; the Pacific not once. Several flyers have reached Hawaii from the U. S.; Kingsford-Smith flew on from Hawaii to Suva and Australia. U. S. Army and Soviet flyers crossed Bering Sea, as did Post & Gatty a few weeks...
At Blagovyeschensk, 850 mi. beyond Irkutsk, the flyers encountered their first serious trouble when the Winnie Mae mired in mud. It was 14 hours before a detachment of soldiers with a U. S.-made tractor pulled the plane out. At Khabarovsk Post and Gatty deliberately sacrificed another 26 hours of...
Pilot Yoshihara proposed to make 20 stops en route to San Francisco, via Petropavlovsk, Alberta; the Aleutian Islands; Seward, Alaska; Vancouver. He carries no radio, will fly far off the regular track of ocean vessels. His worst hazard: Fogs, while he tries to locate his re-fuelling stations along the...
Sir Hubert, financed chiefly by Lincoln Ellsworth who flew across the North Pole with Umberto Nobile and the late Roald Amundsen in the dirigible Norge and who may be a passenger in the submarine, plans to try his craft out under April ice off Halifax. Then he will proceed by...
A rough wall of wind frescoed with whorls of fog effectively blocked Bering Strait, between Alaska and Siberia, to flyers last week. Nor could boats cross under the wall, for clumps of ice, like polar lizards, skittered through from the Arctic Ocean southward. Yet it was becoming increasingly urgent that...