FLIGHT TO POLE
COPE’S PREPARATIONS. EXPERTS CONSIDER SCHEME PRACTICABLE. (By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) LONDON, Sept. 24. Received Sept. 25, 11.45 p.m. Mr Cope, in an interview, stated that hit preparations for the flight to the South Pole were well advanced. Experts were designing an aeroplane and he was negotiating with one of the foremost airmen in the world to take the place of General Lee, deceased, as chief of the aeronautical staff. Cope also intends to use an aeroplane in order to map the Antarctic from the air, during the six years' expedition on the ice. Sir Ernest Shackleton has agreed that it is practicable to use an aeroplane, which would have great climbing capacity and could cany four men and provisions for at least a month. Experts are convinced that they will be able to design a plane which could climb ten thousand feet over the mountains. The machine will have skids instead of wheels to enable it to land on ice and snow. The airman will also ad as pilot to lead the ship through the pointing out free channels. Ernest Joy« will be second in command.
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Southland Times, Issue 18654, 26 September 1919, Page 4
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FLIGHT TO POLE
Southland Times, Issue 18654, 26 September 1919, Page 4
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