Word: flights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Describing the recent flight of G. H. Wilkins over the North Pole from Alaska to Spitzbergen as "the Elizabethan dream of a Northwest passage come true," Vilhjalmur Stefansson Arctic explorer and member of the University faculty from 1904 to 1906 explained to a CRIMSON reporter yesterday several reasons for the importance of Wilkins' achievement...
...Wilkins was second in command of my polar expedition which began in 1913," said Stefansson. "The significance of his recent flight lies in the fact that he has demonstrated the feasibility of transpolar flights. Meteorologists have long recorded the comparative absence of fogs and storms in the Arctic, and it is my firm conviction that the air routes of the future between such points as New York and Pekin, or Seattle and London, will be mapped over the Arctic...
...proceeded to thank M. Painleve by going down into his constituency and electioneering for him. In vain they were charged by his opponents with debasing, if not prostituting, their heroism to politics. True heroes, they stuck to their electioneering. Further, they revealed that on the last stages of their flight they were so reduced in funds that they skimped on food in order to buy gasoline, and hastened home in order to avoid begging for meals...
Pole dash, World War flier, second in command of the ill-fated Shackleton expedition to the South Pole-induced the American Geographical Society and the Detroit Aviation Society to back an east-to-west flight over the North Pole. This was before either Byrd or Amundsen reached the Pole from Spitzbergen...
...spectacular. Spread out over the waspish little ship in which Bleriot first flew across the English Channel, stood the huge trimotored plane in which Commander Richard E. Byrd hopes to conquer the Antarctic. Opposite stood a model of the first Wright machine, in which man first made an honest flight a quarter of a century...