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Wilkins. Safely returned to Fairbanks after their fourth hop over the 560 miles of desolate northern Alaska between Fairbanks and their advanced base, Point Barrow, Captain George H. Wilkins and Pilot Ben Eielson took on a load of freight heavier than ever-4,200 Ib. of fuel and food-and...
At last the familiar signal flashed in. They were at Circle City, 130 miles northeast of Fairbanks on the Yukon. That they were safe was good news, but there was better news still.
The day they flew north from Fairbanks, they had reached the shore of the Polar Sea with the Alaskan still ticking off miles like a great grey goose and had bountiful fuel still aboard. They had thought it a shame to land, and decided on an unscheduled reconnaissance flight due...
On they sped, peering over the horizon for some distant rising film that would mean land. They reached what their instruments told them was the approximate point reached by Captain Robert E. Bartlett in the ice-ship Karluk in 1913; flew another hour, whizzing 70 miles into a frozen desert...
From Circle City to Fairbanks was no hop at all next day. Concerned for "Sandy" Smith and his dogs, Wilkins did not rest long when he got there, but loaded the Alaskan with dogmeat and gasoline and prepared to fly back over the towering Brooks range (6,000 feet and...