FLIGHT OVER POLE
RUSSIAN AIRMEN SET OUT SAN FRANCISCO AS DESTINATION. Received Aug. 4, 7.15 p.m MOSCOW, Aug. Lcvansky, the Soviet airman, started at 4 a.m. on an attempt to fly non-stop to San Francisco via the North Pole. He was accompanied by two conpanions, Baydukoff and Leuchenko, and hoped to accomplish the flight in three days, which which the ’plane vva? provi sioned. He also carried provisions for 48 days packed in parchment and rub bcr sacks in case of a forced landing, against which possibility four Soviet ice-breakers and a fleet of Soviet ’planes stood by in the Arctic Circle ready to go to the aviators’ assistance. The machine is an all-metal low-wing monoplane with a single 950 horsepower engine. The closed cabin is heated from the engine exhaust, and includes a bed on which the aviators will sleep in turn. The total weight on taking off was 11 tons, of which 6 tons was fuel, sufficient for 8100 miles. The •■rew intended flying straight across the Pole FORCED TO RETURN. Received Aug. 4. 7.55 p m. MOSCOW, Aug. 3. Levansky returned to Leningrad owing to a failure of the ’planes lubri cation. The aviators landed after 16.22 hours in the air.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 181, 5 August 1935, Page 8
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