SIR HUBERT WILKINS
FLIGHT TO THE ANT ARCTIC ANOTHER POSTPONEMENT. (United Press Association.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) LONDON, December 2.
Sir Hubert Wilkins, in a wireless message from Deception Island on November 30, states that there was another postponement of his efforts to take off in the air on. his Antarctic flight. The aeroplane must now be fitted with skis. An accident occurred during the transferring of the two aeroplanes from the ship, when the aeroplane Los Angeles had her propeller and wings, damaged. The machine came down beautifully, but the wheels struck a hole; in Hhe- ice, through which it sank until the wings and fuselage held it. Lieutenant Eielson fell through .the ice, but clambered out none the worse for his ducking.— Australian Press Association—United United Service, '
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20582, 4 December 1928, Page 9
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