BYRD EXPEDITION
* BRINGING OUT THE ’PLANES 0 ~ NEW YORK, Sept. 16. A message from Little America states that the work of removing the a expedition’s aeroplanes from the snow a and ice hangars is keeping all hands s busy. The monoplane Miss America Airways has been hauled out and will t be taken for a tost flight in a few days, preparatory to the spring exe ploration, which is scheduled to start early in October. The work of releasing the great biplane, having an 82 ■ feet wing spread, has started. It is - estimated that 200 tons of solid ice t> must be cut away, which will probably require a fortnight. ] •" 111 ' L2
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 77, Issue 221, 18 September 1934, Page 5
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