WILKINS TO SEEK LAND
SWIFT DASH OVER ARCTIC ICE
TWELVE HOURS THERE AND BACK.
(Unk«d Press Association:—Copyright.)
(Sydney Suu Cable.) (Received 3rd May, 10 a.m.)
VANCOUVER, 2nd May.
Captain Wilkins and Lieutenant Eiel»en have decided to use the aeroplane Alaskan to seek land in the Polar seas. After overhaul they will return to Barrow and hop off when the weather permits. Captain Wilkins said: "We shall haveenough gasoline for twelve hours over the icefields and return to Fairbanks." The "Alaskan" can cover ft hundred miles an hour.
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 104, 3 May 1926, Page 9
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