OVER THE POLE?

Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 105, 31 October 1934, Page 3

OVER THE POLE?

The .polar regions may soon become •as familiar to British airmen as Hie Irish Sea or the Channel arc to British seamen. The air-route to the Far East is nearly halved by proceeding by way of the Xorth Pole. If directional wireless proves the success hoped and expected of it, the '600-mile hops between wireless stations at Thornshavu (Faroe Islands), Reykjavik (Iceland), Angmagssalik on the east, coast of Greenland and Godthaab on the west, and Resolution Island at the southern extremity at Baffin Land will come into favour with fliers for several wellfounded reasons. If it should prove a, reliable, proposition to check direction on these sections by wireless, the skilled pilot could contemplate operation along this route in weather which at present would make it hazardous, for he would be largely independent _ of fogs and other forms'of bad visibility. Besides,, though the length ,of this route from England to Kew York is 4500 miles, and therefore greater than the direct route, a great advantage lies in the fact that it can be divided into 600-mile stages.