DOGGED BY BAD LUCK
ELLSWORTH EXPEDITION
(By Telegraph.) (Special to the "Evening Post.") DUNEDIN, This Day. "Nobody could have flown in the weather Lincoln Ellsworth experienced," declared Admiral Byrd in reply to questions as to his fellow American explorer's abandonment of his transantarctic flight. For Mr. Ellsworth Admiral Byrd has the greatest personal admiration. They are close friends, and from Little America weather reports were sent three times daily to the Wyatt Earp, with which Byrd's ■ base was in continuous communication. . : "It was just bad luck that prevented Ellsworth from making his flight," said Admiral Byrd. "The weather was consistently bad at Deception Island and in the Weddell Sea. and he could not have made the flight." - When the weather.was good for flying at Little America, he said, conditions were stormy at the* Ellsworth base, and vice versa. He sympathised with Mr. EllsWorth^in his being persistently dogged by bad luck.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 42, 19 February 1935, Page 10
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150DOGGED BY BAD LUCK Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 42, 19 February 1935, Page 10
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