FLIGHT OVER POLE
SOVIET AIRMEN PROGRESS REPORTS (Reed. July 14, 10.30 a.m.) NEW YORK, July 13. The United States army radio station in Alaska picked up a message from the Russian flyers, Michael Gromov, A. Yumashev, and S. Daniline, who are flying from Russia to the United States via the Arctic Circle.
The message stated that there was a cyclone ahead which the plane was skirting at an altitude of 4500 metres at latitude 86deg.
Messages were received throughout the night from the flyers and indicated that they passed the North Pole at about 3.30 o’clock. The temperature was eight degrees below zero.
The aviators sent a radio message about 8 p.m.. New Zealand time, on Tuesday stating that all was well and they were approaching the fringe of the Arctic Circle. They were following the fourteenth meridian and making faster time than on the previous flight.
They radioed the Canadian Signal Corps four hours later that they were over Fort Norman. They asked for weather reports and indicated that they had an ample supply of petrol.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19376, 14 July 1937, Page 5
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