WORLD FLIGHT
OVER BOTH POLES CALL AT N.Z. LARGE U.S. AIRCRAFT CAPT. ODOM CHIEF PILOT (N.Z.P.A.—Router—Copyright.) (11 a.m.) CHICAGO, Sept. 3. Mr. Milton Reynolds, the millionaire pen manufacturer, said today that preparations for a “vertical” round - the - world (light, over both Poles were progressing rapidly. After firing over the North Pole from Alaska to Tokyo the aircraft, which would bo piloted by Captain Bill Odom, the holder of the “horizontal" world flight record, would call at New Zealand a complete check of the equipment and the crew then would fly TOGO miles nonstop over the Antarctic continent to South America. The aircraft will be a B 32 Consolidated bomber, which is almost as large as the Superfortress and slightly faster. It will carry eight or 10 men in addition to the pilot, including at least five scientists, who will seek weather information and take photographs of the Arctic and Antarctic regions. Mr. Reynolds added that the Army Air Force has opposed the flight when it was first suggested, bpt was now cooperating with the expedition and lending much equipment.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22425, 4 September 1947, Page 5
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179WORLD FLIGHT Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22425, 4 September 1947, Page 5
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