BYRD EXPEDITION.
TREK PARTIES’ TROUBLES.‘ TREACHEROUS CREVASSES.'' r PARACHUTING “PASTIME.” (Received 9 a.m.) ’ NEW YORK, November ,3. A wireless message from the Byrd Antarctic expedition at Little America states: . .‘*7., V '”<• The expedition's giant biplane", was ' ; given a final test flight today, „ with Rear-Admiral Byrd on board, to bb- : ' r J serve the flying -qualities- of the craft, ‘ 5 which is to be used brt most of the long-range explorations., , , / . ( Earlier, 'Mr June had taken the biplane a short distance over the Ross Sea for aerial photographs of the con- - ditions of the ice l which .still covers the sea. , • • ■ -
Mr Bernard Skinner, formerly anArmy parachute jumper, made a leap from 4000 feet above Little America to “relieve the monotony.” He -landed roughly, but without accident.The latest news from the thrfee expeditions in the field is - not reassur-. ’-i ing. The tractor and - sledge parties ' are finding difficulty in charting a safe. passage through the crevasses at latitude 81 south, Rear-Admiral Byrd has instructed them to retreat to the north 3 and erideavour to find a safe passage v' to the east. , „ : " ■ . ; :
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Northern Advocate, 5 November 1934, Page 5
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