NORTH POLE FLIGHT.

Press, Volume LXII, Issue 18671, 21 April 1926, Page 14

NORTH POLE FLIGHT.

AMUNDSEN'S ATTEMPT. (noM ora own coaniSPOXDirr.) LONDON, March 10. •The Airship Norge I, in which the well-known Polar explorer, Amundsen, is to attempt to fly from Europe over tho North Polo to Alaska, and which, will pass through London- on its journey, will be the most efficiently equipped airship from a wireless point of vien?, which has ever taken the air. By special arrangement • with the Marconi Company, the vessel is to be equipped with transmitting apparatus which wilt enable the commander to keep in touch with either l&nd or .ship stations at distances up. to 1,000 miles. Thus the airship will.never be out of touch- with the external world during its whole journey, above the icebound solitudes of the Polnr regions. ■ deceiving apparatus specially designed to cover a wave-rang© of_ 300--5,()00. metres will also Jj'o carried, whilst direction-finding • apparatus will bo installed which -will be sufficiently sensitive to.enable the navigators accurately to determine their course and direction evrin' over the Pole itself whep the compasses will bo of no navigational value, sine© all directions "wili .bo*duo south. • , The Wireless Direction' Finder will enablo all the long wave European and stations to be picked. up and oriented, with, ease, huge . loops having been erected right round the envelope of the. airship. By this means tho sensitivity of the Wireless Directional' apparatus has been made much greater than any hitherto employed on any aircraft.