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HARVARD YALE Twosomes Captain Hutchinson, No. 1 No. 1, Captain Lanman Morrill, No. 2 No. 2, Parker J. W. Hutchinson, No. 3 No.3, Knapp Winston, No. 4 No.4, Forrest Stover, No. 5 No. 5, Hitch Filoon, No. 6 No. 6, Lanphier Eoursomes Captain Hutchinson and Morrill, No. 1 No. 1, Captain Lanman and Parker J. W. Hutchinson and Winston, No. 2 No. 2, Kuapp and Forrest Stover and Filoon, No. 3 No. 3, Hitch and Lanphier...
...between peaks at 9,000 feet. Once, a mountainside had rushed out of the fog so close in front that the plane's right landing wheel missed a snow bank by inches. At Barrow, clouds and a split propeller had frustrated three attempted return flights. Wilkins advised Major Lanphier, his second-in-command, to bide at Fairbanks for good weather before going to join him in their big biplane, the Detroiter. The Barrow base was nearly complete for flights over the Arctic Sea to terra incognita...
Wilkins. The silence that shut down upon the ether of northern Alaska after a last "All's well" from the monoplane Alaskan as she winged away from Fairbanks on her third flight from there to Point Barrow, continued all last week, stretching into nine days. Major Lanphier, second-in-command of the Detroit Arctic Expedition, rushed repairs on the big trimotored biplane Detroiter. He took the air in search of the missing plane but was soon forced back by motor trouble. His last orders from Captain Wilkins had been to pick up and move their base from Fairbanks to Barrow...
...miles south of Point Barrow on the Colville River, while he and an aide mushed across the tundra to the nearest settlement. He had run out of food for the dogs. Soon, the encamped ones flashed, the animals would have to be shot. Wilkins, second-in-command, Major Lanphier, left behind in Fairbanks, at once rushed repairs on the damaged Fokker Detroiter to send aid. Meantime he worried and worried about Wilkins and Eielson...
...over the Arctic seas. About noon, Fairbanks reported a radio from Captain Wilkins saying he had sighted Point Barrow. That meant that the Alaskan was soaring over the great triangular tundra, about the size of Texas, north of the Endicott Mountains. This report was later denied by Major Lanphier, Wilkins' second-in-command, and not for three days was the Alaskan's safe landing at its destination definitely known...