BYRD'S FLIGHT

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 1, 1 July 1926, Page 9

BYRD'S FLIGHT

CLAIM TO REACH POLE

EXAMINED BY SCIENTISTS

ALL COMPUTATIONS VERIFIED.

(United Press Association.—Copyright.) (Australian-New Zealand Cable Assn.) WASHINGTON, 29th June.

A special committee appointed by tho National Geographic Society to examine tho records of Commander Byrd's flight reported that they found them carefully and. accurately kept, and in their opinion they substantiate in every particular the claim of Byrd that on 9th May he reached the.North Pole by aeroplane, thus being the first person to accomplish the feat by aerial navigation. Two noted mathematicians of the United States Geodetic Survey and the chief cartographer of the society gave the committee' export assistance in coming to this conclusion. All Byrd's computations were verified. His probable arrival at the Pole was nine hours three minutes Greenwich civil time, while his estimated time was nine hours two minutes, showing only an error of a minute, involving, a distance of about one mile. The report concludes: "The feat of flying -n aeroplane 600 miles from land and returning directly to the point aimed for is, a remarkable exhibition of skilful navigation, and shows beyond a reasonable doubt that Commander Byrd knew where he was at all times during his flight."