POLAR FLIGHT
CROSSING OF ANTARCTIC PROPOSED United Press Association—Bv Electrlo Telegraph—Copyright (Received May 1, 8.50 p.m.) TORONTO, April 30. Sir Hubert Wilkins interviewed the air pilots here 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-mlle flight across the Antarctic. Sir Hubert favoured Canadian pilots, as the only ones, with the possible exception of the 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, with plans practically the same as for the first attempt in 1933 when the ’plane was crushed in an ice fissure. From 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 the Antarctica is one continent.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 20097, 2 May 1935, Page 9
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154POLAR FLIGHT Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 20097, 2 May 1935, Page 9
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