POLAR FLIGHT.
THE AMERICAN PROJECT. In connection with the projected Polar flight next spring additional information has been received regarding the details. Stefanssou on Tuesday confirmed reports that the explorer himself ivill.not take part in the flight, but is assisting in arrangements. An all-metal Ford ’plane will be in charge of George Wilkins, second in command of the Stefansson Arctic expeditions in 191.3 and 1918. The expedition will have the backing of the National. Geographical Society. A Detroit message states that the flight, the object of which, is the exploration of the uncharted sections of Polar seas, is also backed by the Detroit Aviation Society, of which Mr William Mazo is chief engineer and Mr Ford is president, but the Automobile Manufacturing Company officials deny that Mr Ford himself is interested in the project.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 28 December 1925, Page 2
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