AGAIN NEXT YEAR?

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 25, 30 January 1934, Page 11

AGAIN NEXT YEAR?

ELLSWORTH'S PLANS.

LEAVES AUCKLAND FEB. 10.

START FROM S. AMERICA ?

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) DUXEDIN, this day. The Polar explorer, Mr. Lincoln Ellsworth, will fly to the National Park, where he intends- to indulge in outdoor exercise. Ho will go to Auckland on February 10 to catch the Mariposa for Los Angeles. His f.amagcd 'plane will bo shipped to America about ten days later. ■ . Asked if repairs could be carried out to the 'plane in New Zealand or even in Australia, Mr. Ellsworth replied: "No, there are no factories in New Zealand, nor could it be done" in "Australia. The michinc will have to.be taken back to the makers in Los Angeles, where it will be about a fourteen-day job to right the troubled Only by the use of the right rriaebinery can such a job be carried out, for the alignment jnust bo exact to the lUOth'part of ah inch." '•By the' time-.I get back to' America iuid iiave the 'aeroplane .fixed-, it will be too -late this ssuntiue'r to 'attempt to return: to • the ice, and I hayo not made a ny, plans for the future," said Mr. Ellsworth; "There is a probability, however,- thai .next year 1 shall'start oil again, this time* leaving from South America, and going to the Weddell Sea first. Then, T. might come round this way' again, but I do not think so—the risk on this side is too great, and one failure is enough."