ANTARCTIC EXPLORERS.
t .WILKINS’ EXPERIENCE. A TRIAL FLIGHT. ALBATROSS DAMAGES PLANE. (By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.} (Australian Press Association.) (Rec. December 10, 10.45 a.m.) LONDON, Dec. 9. Sir Hubert Wilkins, the Antarctic explorer, in a wireless message from Deception Island says he made a flight ’ to ascertain whether ice would form on the machine. He also examined the ’ Island for landing fields. The temperature was two degrees below zero but no ice formed on the machine. No suitable field for skis was found. During an interval between snow storms he flew over Snow Island, and when alighting an enormous albatross smashed into the butt of the propellor, The bird had a wing spread of ten feet. - If it had struck the propellor tips or the pilot's windshield a disaster would have been likely.Near the island's edges were ere-, vasses many hundreds of yards long and wide enough to engulf the plane. The message concludes: “We must examine the Island on foot before us- 7 ing it as a base.”
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Waikato Times, Volume 104, Issue 17581, 10 December 1928, Page 7
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