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...Pisa in Northern Italy, Roald Amundsen is testing the two special machines built by the German designer Dormier. In a few days he will fly north by way of Zurich, through Germany and Norway to Spitzenbergen. Thence to the North Pole and Alaska. In the barren wastes of polar territory, a forced landing means almost certain death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Cold Flight | 4/14/1924 | See Source »

This temperature must be endured for seven hours (600) miles from Spitzenbergen to the Pole; for twelve hours (1,150 miles) from the Pole to Point Barrow, Alaska...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Cold Flight | 4/14/1924 | See Source »

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