FLIGHT OVER POLE

Taranaki Daily News, 2 May 1935, Page 5

FLIGHT OVER POLE

WILKINS AND ELLSWORTH ANTARCTIC PLANS MADE NON-STOP FOR 2900 MILES PILOTS TO BE CANADIANS By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Rec. 8.50 p.m. Toronto, April 30. Sir Hubert Wilkins ' interviewed air pilots here to-day and will interview others in Western Canada with a view to finding two to accompany him and Mr. Lincoln Ellsworth on what may be the first non-stop 2900-mile flight across the Antarctic. He favoured Canadian pilots as the only ones, with the possible exception of Russians, with sufficient experience of similar climatic conditions. . , Only two pilots will travel with the expedition which, it is stated, will leave the United States early in October. Its plans will be practically the same as in the first attempt in 1933 when the plane was crushed in an ice fissure at the aerodrome at the Weddell Sea base. The flight will be across the South Pole to the extreme side of the continent for the purpose of determining whether Antarctica is one continent.