POLAR FLIGHT
AMUNDSEN’S NEXT TRIP. PLANS OF EXPEDITION. AIRSHIP TO BE USER Bir CABLE —PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT. Received Nov. 24, 12.45 p.m. ROME, Nov. 23. An Italian, Colonel Nobile, who invented and constructed the airship in which Captain Amundsen and Co'onel Nobile, with a crew of fifteen mechanics will undertake the Po'ar flight next spring, in a lecture before the university. stated that the scientific goal of the expedition was to establish the presence of land or sea, and the actual nature of the Polar region. The proposed course of the flight was from Spitsbergen to. Point Barrow, in, North Alaska, a distance of 2200 miles, of which 700 miles separates Spitsbergen from the Pole. It was estimated that the journey will take sixty-five hours. A s it is impossible to construct a hangar, a special shelter will be built with a mooring mast. The airship will travel to Spitsbergen in three stages, by way of Pulliam and Trondhjem.—Reuter.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 24 November 1925, Page 9
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159POLAR FLIGHT Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 24 November 1925, Page 9
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