AT LITTLE AMERICA
ALL HANDS AT WORK
GETTING AEROPLANES OUT OF ICE
(Hecciv.ed September 17, 2 p.m.)
LITTLE AMERICA, September 16. ■Work- of 'removing1 the expedition.'s aeroplanes from the snow and ice hangars is keeping all hands busy. The monoplane Miss America Airways has been hauled out'and will.be taken, ou a test flight in a few days preparatory to the spring explorations, wjiich are scheduled to start early, in October. The work, of releasing' the great. biplane, which has an 82-foot wingspread, has started. It is estimated that 200 : tons of solid ice must be cut away. This svill probably require a fortnight's work. '
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Evening Post, Issue 67, 17 September 1934, Page 10
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104AT LITTLE AMERICA Evening Post, Issue 67, 17 September 1934, Page 10
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