ARCTIC AIR SEARCH.
EXPEDITION FROM ENGLAND. MAJOR COTTON LEAVES. (Received May C, 7.45 p.m.) British "Wireless. RUGI3Y, May 6. One of tho most experienced Arctic airmen, Major F. S. Cotton, has left England for Reykjavik, Iceland, to assist, if necessary, in succouring Mr. Augustine who remained alone on the Greenland icecap. He was accompanied by Lieutenant L. K. Barnes, lent by the Air Ministry, as relief pilot, and Mr. C. K. Bond, a wireless operator. Ho took a monoplane equipped for Arctic work. Major Cotton will attempt to reach Mr. Courtauld, should Captain Ahrenberg fail. Within the past week preparations which normally take four months have been completed to equip this supplementary expedition. Major Cotton has done much flying in Labrador. He flew over 1500 miles backwards and forwards over Newfoundland when searching for the missing French Atlantic airmen, Lieutenants Nungesser and Coli. A message from the Copenhagen correspondent of tho News-Chronicle says the British Arctic Air Expedition's own Moth aeroplane was forced down at Angmagsalik, after a flight of 70 miles over the icefield, in which nothing "was seen of Mr. Courtauld or of Mr. Watkins' party which set out to rescue him.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20866, 7 May 1931, Page 9
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ARCTIC AIR SEARCH.
New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20866, 7 May 1931, Page 9
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