Word: longyearbyen
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Dates: during 1959-1959
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...participated on their own-was halted after the arrival of Colonel Theodore Tatum, air-rescue boss for the Air Force in Europe, and Lieut. Colonel Charles Mathison, member of the Discoverer II launching team. The two discussed the hunt with local authorities in Spitzbergen's tiny capital of Longyearbyen, questioned the three men who had seen the chute, took a quick whirlybird look for themselves, and flew on home...
...given it a proper try. "I don't understand it," said a Norwegian helicopter pilot. "We could have continued the search for days. I told the Americans that it is naturally difficult to find an object like that, but that I was not pessimistic." Around Longyearbyen, many miners refused to give up. Their optimism was kept alive partly by a $500 reward offered by Lockheed Aircraft Corp., one of the builders of the Discoverer II, partly by the fervent hope that they could beat Russian search parties to the discovery. Besides, said one man from Longyearbyen : "There...
Sighting. Norway's General Johnsen, nevertheless, knew just what to do. He telephoned his friend Knut Deinboll, director of the Great Norwegian Mining Co. at Longyearbyen (pop. 800). Deinboll, a former Norwegian air force flyer, had two hours to set up a search. He flashed the mining company's office at the sister village of Ny-Alesund (pop. 1,000), then set out to rouse the sleeping villagers of Longyearbyen. He organized a dozen ski patrols of two and three men each, assigned them to nearby mountain lookout positions. Soon three men rushed back from their patrol...
...airstrip for the use of U.S. planes. Then the U.S. Air Force got permission from the Norwegian government to send out search planes from its base near Reykjavic, Iceland and from U.S. bases in Germany. Later, two U.S. C-130 cargo planes touched down at the makeshift runway at Longyearbyen, unloaded two helicopters that the U.S. hurriedly leased from the Norwegian government...
...Joiners. All through the week, tough, eager Longyearbyen search crews skied and tramped the rugged ice mountains, looking for the telltale orange parachute, while overhead a dozen U.S. Air Force planes and the helicopters droned steadily in the 22-hour Arctic...