FIRST PLANE AT NORTH POLE
U.S. Mission Lands On Pack Ice (N.Z. Press Association —Copyright) (Rec. 11.30 p.m.) JUNEAU (Alaska), May 5. The Alaska Air Command announced to-day that a United States Air Force plane on Saturday made the first landing in* history at the geographic North Pole. A party of Air Force officials and scientists landed in a ski-equipped Dakota transport aircraft on pack ice at the Pole. The group spent more than three hours on the ice pack. The Dakota took off for the pole from Fletcher’s Island, where an Air Force weather station was established last month. The aircraft flew 135 miles to the Pole where members of the party took measurements, including the ocean depth and the gravity field strength. On May 21, 1937, a Russian expedition landed an aircraft on an ice floe within a few miles of the North Pole.
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Press, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 26723, 6 May 1952, Page 7
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