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Word: stromfjord (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1954-1954
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...saves the passenger $40; $970 round trip is $70 less.) Cruising at 300 m.p.h. at about 17,000 ft. altitude, SAS made only two stops on the 5,800-mile flight to take on gas. The plane let down at Winnipeg and at Greenland's Sondre Stromfjord, where the 6,000-ft. airstrip is known to its icebound U.S.A.F. maintenance crew and pilots as Bluie West 8, its wartime code name...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: North to Europe | 11/29/1954 | See Source »

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