SLOW MOTION

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19513, 16 February 1926, Page 7

SLOW MOTION

POLAR EXPLORING PARTY SNOW MOTORS’ HEADWAY THREE MILES AN HOUR WILKINS EXPEDITION SETS OFF By Telegraph—Per Press Assn.—Copyright. NENANA, Feb. 14. After a false start, due to damaged mow motors, the Wilkins expedition supply party recommenced its 700-mile trip to Point Barrow on Saturday. They weft making less than three miles gn hour as they left. WILKINS’ PREPARATIONS CLEARING HOP-OFF FIELD THREE SNOW MOTORS NENANA, (Alaska), Feb. 7. Three snow motors and ten doubleended sleds arrived here by train from Seward, in good order. Two of the snow motors will be used to carry 15 tons of aeroplane fuel for Captain G. 11. Wilkins’ flight, and the third will be held to clear the hop-off field. Arnout Castel. a former member of the Stefansson Expedition, has left Nome to join Captain Wilkins at Point Barrow. with a cargo of food and clothing. Castel, who was with Wilkins when the latter took a whaler to Banksland to get Stefansson s ice party will join in preparing the landing field •Ad erecting buildings at Point Barrow. OVER THE POLE RADIO AND PLANES FLIGHT COMMENCES ON MARCH 21 DETROIT (Michigan), Jan. 28. Captain G. IL Wilkins, the Australian explorer (who is to lead a Polar flight) will start for Alaska on Saturday, accompanied by Major Lanphier, an army aviator, who is joining in the flight as an unofficial observer. Carl Eilesen, a former AJaskan mail pilot, will leave Seattle on February 6 lor Fairbanks (Alaska), and will there supervise the construction of canvas hangars for the expedition’s two Fok ker ’pianes. These are now at Hasbrouck (New Jersey). They will be dispatched on Saturday to Seattle, and later sent to Fairbanks. An army mechanician, Charles Wiseley, will accompany the Fokker machines. At the Alaskan base there will be four mechanicians, two radio men, and two Eskimos. HANGAR FOR NORGE 1 AMUNDSEN’S AIRSHIP LONDON, Feb. 5. The Air Ministry has granted permission for Captain Amundsen’s airship, the Norge 1. now being built in Italy), to be housed at Cardington in March, after its 2000-mile non-stop flight from Rome, on its way to Spitzbergen for Amundsen’s Arctic expedition.