FLIGHT TO THE POLE.
ALGARSSON’S PLANS. PLANTING UNION JACK. LONDON, April 21. Commander Frank Worsley, who is in command of the ship in which Captain Algarsson will cover the first stage of Iris projected Polar journey, said to-day that he intended to take the ship as far north of Spitzbergen as possible. There were good prospects for open ice as Norway had had the warmest winter for a century. When they had got as far as they could, they would anchor the ship : to an ice-floe and inliato the airship. In this, the party to make the final stage of the trip, will fly to the North Pole, where they hope to remain, stationary by putting the nose of the dirigible into the wind, while they lower a ladder of silk and bamboo, and plant a Union Jack on the spot. They will then continue their flight to Alaska.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLV, Issue 128, 4 May 1925, Page 9
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