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WILKINS’S PLANE BURNED. (Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright.) NEW YORK, January 18. Fire in Detroit damaged beyond repair the triple-engined metal plane with which Captain Wilkins planned to make his flight across the North Pole. The plane was one of ten destroyed. The entire experimental plant of the stout metal airplane division of the Ford Motor Company was also badly damaged. —Sydney Sun Cable. EXPEDITION WILL NOT BE DELAYED. NEW YORK, January 18. (Received Jan. 19, at 9.55 p.m.) Captain Wilkins states that the loss of his plan© will not. delay the starting of the expedition. —A. and N.Z. Cable.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19692, 20 January 1926, Page 7
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