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Explorers MacMillan and Amundsen having failed to settle the question by their flights last year, the 1926 explorers are already afield. Despatches from the snow motors division of the expedition financed by the Detroit Chamber of Commerce (TIME, Jan. 4) reported within the fortnight the breakdown of two "iron malamutes...
The French have planned a compromise type of expedition, using motor sledges in co-operation with collapsible amphibian planes. Their sledges differ from the caterpillar-tread ones that failed Wilkins, having suction-grip rubber "paws" on a traction wheel extended in front of the sled-runners.
The cause of the aviator's withdrawal came in the form of a dispatch notifying him of his appointment as commander of the Wilkins Expedition which will try to reach the North Pole next summer. It has not yet been announced what part aeroplanes will play in the expedition but...
Few will deny the possibility that eventually the Arctic regions will be filled with lanes of human traffic. If Captain Wilkins can fly successfully from land to land across the polar desert, he will hasten the eventuality. That is the great utilitarian purpose of the venture. The sporting and the...
Captain Wilkins is an Australian by his papers and a Nomanslander by his instincts. Educated in Sydney to be an engineer, the world first observed him as a motion picture man, when he secured the first front-line close-ups of the Balkan Wars in 1912. He went with Shackleton...