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...they flew north from Fairbanks, they had reached the shore of the Polar Sea with the Alaskan still ticking off miles like a great grey goose and had bountiful fuel still aboard. They had thought it a shame to land, and decided on an unscheduled reconnaissance flight due north over the seething floes. It was snowing a bitter blizzard, but far from shore the sun reappeared and they distinguished, 7,000 feet below, that the smooth sea had changed to a white inferno of hummocks ? the great polar icecap in the center of which is what geographers call...
...properly stowed below decks in a dismantled condition, showed his backers and friends over the craft on an inspection tour, and with 45 companions waved goodby as the Chantier slipped out of dock. Going down the bay, a sleek yacht escorted the Chantier with her owner, Vincent Astor, aboard, and other Byrd-backers, including John D. Rockefeller Jr., Edsel Ford, F. Trubee Davison, Rear Admiral Charles P. Plunkett. Tromso, Norway...
...Ship. Catholic passengers on North German Lloyd vessels last week prayed, with content and quietude unusual aboard ship, before altars permanently built in. They knew too that Herr Direktor Adolf Stadtlander of the line had told His Holiness of this convenience for voyaging Catholic immigrants and church missions, had indicated that his was the only line so permanently equipped, had received the Apostolic blessing for the ventures of the North German Lloyd...
...split second. Crash went Baby Gar VII into Miss Palm Beach, throwing overboard her own pilot, George Wood, brother of Gar. With her motors roaring, Baby Gar VII churned round in a circle, her rudder jammed hard over. George Wood caught a rope dragging from her, climbed aboard, cut the spark. Then Baby Gar VII sank under...
...came to light last week and the teller made a fearsome tale of it. He was Charles P. Burgess, an associate professor of aeronautics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who was assigned a place in the RS-1's crew of 13 as technical observer. He had also been aboard the late Shenandoah that night in 1924 when she broke loose from her mooring mast at Lakehurst, N. J. (TIME, Jan. 28, 1924), and he described the forced flight of the RS-1 as "far more violent...