POLAR FLIGHT.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIV, Issue 722, 2 June 1923, Page 11

POLAR FLIGHT.

AMUNDSEN MATURING HIS

PLANS

LONDON, May 19. Captain Svorrup. of tho Amundsen Nortli Polo Expedition, sends a message from the Maud, explaining the system of aerial navigation by which Captain Amundsen hopes to make his forthcoming flight over tho Pole. One of the most perfect of special “artificial horizon” sextants for air observations lias been constructed by the United States geodetic survey for tho explorer, who should thus be enabled to find his way from Point Barrow, Alaska, to the Pole and thence to Spitsbergen or Cape Columbia, in Grant’s Land, provided the sun is visible and enables observations to be made. If the weather does not permit of observation Captain Amundson must fly by the compass, and with his Hying time as the only reliable information to guide him. Captain Raold Amundsen, discoverer of the South Pole, is how completing his plans for an aeroplane flight across the Arctic Ocean. His polar vessel, the Maud, went north through tjio Behring Sea, and the explorer plans to leave her near the Alaska coast, while he flies across to Greenland or some other region on the opposite side of the pole. He has a speciallymade aeroplane for the flight, and anticipates making scientific observations of the air currents over tho ice.