ANTARCTIC FLIGHT

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 15222, 21 May 1920, Page 6

ANTARCTIC FLIGHT

A POSSIBLE PROPOSITION. LOVDON. Feb: 20.— Mr. John.L- Cope, PR G.s.. leader and organiser of the rtr't *"!> Antiivct'c Expedition, whose plans '••<-*iide n riirrh- to the South Pole, referring to Sir Erne'-t- Shackleton's stateJnii'i't that m h's o-in'on, a flight to tho t South v-de w*- '■»-• sslhle without depots 'being' laid for ;\ distance of 300 miles m- ' • land from the barrier edge, said to .t c« t ■••) i News representative :— | "My reply to that is that by means J •of plans which I have drawn up, even > I though an, accident did" necessitate a > forced landing, men would be able To ' (mpr.-h back to their base, as has been (lone on previous occasions. To ily to the 'South Pole is a dange-ous adventure, | hut danger has never deterred Englishmen from attempting a\ task. The machine' I* which we shall make the attempt is specially filled with skis to allow its taking off and landing on ice or ground covered with snow and .deeply furrowed. I have taken expert : opinion upon the projected flight, and, as a result of considered opinion of ' experts,'. I have prepared my plans. Experts all vi agree that m the present stage of aviation, and upon the plans which I have drawn up, ihe project is possible and quite practicable. So convinced arc the experts that they are all assisting mc m the venture. Amongst those who are a*-sistinjr me T m *~),t mention the Air Ministry, General Sir Hugh Trenchard, Hrigadler-Gfner.il Livingstone, and the Royal Aeronautical Society.