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QAPTAIN WILKINS’S FLIGHT. NO LAND SIGHTED. (Pres* Association— By Telegraph—Copyright.» VANCOUVER, April 7. Captain Wilkins’s story of his farthest north Alaskan flight reads like a novel On leaving Fairbanks on Wednesday week the motor worked like a charm, and within five hours the fliers found them selves over the village cf Point Barrow. “Things were then going so well with us.” continued Captain Wilkins, “that we decided to keep on going north. During the next three hours we accomplished 75 miles seaward into the great unknown We reached 73deg 30min N, flying at an elevation cf 7000 ft. The visibility was good, and from that height we could see many miles in every direction. Leaving Po! *■ Barrow, we crossed a broad expanse of fairly smooth ice, then traverud a rough, liummocky area that stretched as far as the eye could reach in every direction, broken by leads of open water on all sides. We saw no evidence of land. Our return was delayed by bad weather.”— Sydney Sun Cable.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19759, 9 April 1926, Page 9
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