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POLAR FLIGHT

Commander Byrd's Thrilling Account

OVER THE SOUTH POLE

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the mountain base and at Little and in honour of our cousin and, that email atane lle together at the America.

friend, the British Empire, we car- bottom of the world. ried with us the British flag.

We were about 2,500 feet above For a moment thero flashed the Pole and the temperatura had through my mind the fact that some dropped to 15 degrees below zero. had attempted to start a mild con- Visibility was good in most direc- troversy covering territorial rightstions. But what was direction? of the British Empire and the United States as a result of our dis- coveries. What a pity that there

Memories of Amundsen Beneath us somewhere was the trail that Roald Amundsen, my friend, had blazed to the South Pole, a trail now burled far beneath the anow. My admiration for that great explorer Increased tremendously when I saw with what he had to

| Race Against A Storm: Heartless Engine Trouble contend. In his honour and in hon-

EXTENDING THE TRAIL

(The following is Rear-Admiral Richard E. Byrd's own story of his recent flight over the South Pole, as written for the New York Times and forwarded to that paper by wireless).

If

Little America, Antarctica, December 3. There was now less than 800 miles between us and the Pole. the aun remained, the sun compass and wind drift indicator should take us there as straight as a bee flies.

We would have to ride the engines all the way. The Plateau was so high that if one of the three engines should stop we would have to`land on snow, which at places was nearly two miles above seu level, an uncertain thing at any time-more- uncertain with a load aboard. The engines must keep going.

ENGINE SPUTTERS

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could be such a controversy!

All directions are north from the Pole. When we passed over the Polo, we had changed our time a whole day. Now we had changed it back again.

Threatening Clouds

The In a

our of Bernt and the other Nor-

This is a peaceful and scientific wegians at Little America and the mission trying to extend the bounda- whalers who with such a great ries of land and knowledge made by generoalty have helped us, we ear- those horeca who gave their lives

We still had a job to do. ried with us the Norwegian flag. here. If the spirit of this expedt- winds were gathering force. French flag. We have net forgot the nation that they represented patches of drifting snow beneath We carried with us also the tion toward those gallant men and short time we would see more ten the extraordinary hospitality could be known and felt, it would us. We watched the aun compass France showed the trans-Atlantie add its mito toward further good and drift Indicator like hawks. We flyers, nor the friendship demon-fellowship, a fellowship so vitally must hit the mountain pass. strated for America at that time important now that our country bas and the sportsmanship displayed at joined with other nations in face of the loss of their gallant harmony for the world. the success of Americans In the

sincere effort to secure ponce and

flyer, who had set out on a more difficult feat.

· A half hour past midnight, we again tried to get an altitude of the sun. The sight was better this time dead-reckoning position. That was and showed us to be close to our

good. But there was still enough movement of the plane to prevent our being certain of that sight. There was probably error in it, and just how much we could not tell. We felt confidence in our sua com pass and drift Indleator and luckily our sight did not change our cal- culations.

I was saying this to myself when, been over water or ice near the starboard engine began to sput- level. ter. Bernt Balchen rosed daws. 10 Degrees Below Zero Harold June rushed to the gas tank But there was a way.

The temperature seemed to be With a valves and stood looking at the stopwatch we got the time it took mountaina abaft the beam were fad falling as we neared the Fole. The engine, and listening to the jarring crevasse, satrugi or smoke bombing now and clouds, which may interruptions the missing cylinders beneath to run the length of a 12-have caused in the rhythm.

unseen mountains, inch wire in the bottom of the plane. showed on the horizon off the port And, turning north, we took thei

bow. time over the same object in the

Harold was piloting and Bernt Then with simple came aft to tell me that it was not

same manner.

Captain McKinley for once heait- ated in his mapping work. After winning our hardest struggle, was our flight to be ended jobjective ? Bernt hurriedly mant-calculated.

pulated the altitude control..

To do this we had to open a two- In the effort to economize on pre-foot trap door. The strong wind cious fuel the gasoline had been coming up through it quickly num-

roar

covered

Flying Over Pole

On and on je went. Time that seemed long before crawled now. The first mountain to the right, which had been clear on the outward journey, were half covered with clouds. Mac photographed them. four hours back.

The barrier edge was now about Apparently the storm had just

No wonder the reached there. Bernt had increas boys thought I was flying beyond led the motor revolution and the more than 300 miles from the Bar-stuff. the Pole, which was only a little great Cyclone engine was doing its

pected, but at last the big moment

rler's edge. The wind had caused We aimed our course a few de- us to take longer than we had ex-grees to the right so as to reach the barrier more to the eastward than we had left it, to get a better view of Carmen Land and to obtain sur- vey photographs geographically of great importance.

had come.

The imaginary point the very bottom of the world-was, accord- ing to my reckoning, somewhere beneath and within

our view, I

handed Harold the following mees our comrades at age to radio to Little America. reached the vicinity of the South "My calculations indicate we have

Pole. Flying high for survey. Soon

turn north."

Bernt turned the noss of the plane to the right, while I attempted to

BO near the mathematics the speed could be quite so clear ahead and that we get the altitude of the sun with the might find mist near the Pole. Once Bextant, but there was now far too or twice we thought we saw, snowsulta. We knew exactly what the much movement of the plane for re- drifting beneath.

10 degrees below zero and getting colder as we approached the Pole.

Suddenly Bernt gave a shout of A little to our loft was the joy." pass we had come through, only partly cloud-covered, and what wo almost dead ahead. took for Axel Heiberg Glacier was beginning to form.

in timo.

Clouds were We were just

We were very thankful that we did not have to waste precious time and gasoline looking for a way through the mountains.

Helberg Glacier. It was very rough Soon we were sliding down-Axel but the plane was light. In another down gracefully on the ice-hard sastrugi at our little mountain base.

An Antarctic storm seemed to be altitude of the sun should be, since made too lean. The motor began to ber the face of the observer. It was closing in on us, but we thought we / the altitude of the sun's centre at few minutes Harold brought her

could get back to the mountains any moment at the Pole is equal to the declination of the sun, which at that time was 21 degrees and 27 minutes. The sun circles that point without any noticeable change in altitude.

sing again. I say "aing," for its was music when it was not missing a beat. Flying on a flight of this kind is full of contrasts- everything perfect one minute and the next everything black.

It.

We found the wind to be againat us. Instead of Rying 100 miles an hour over the plateau we were mak- ing only 84 or 85 miles an hour. This was

ahead of it.

those fellows to go any further, We turned the nose of the plane back toward Little America,

Few Weeka, Then Home We put aboard 200 gallons of gasoline and left 350 pounds of food, 10 gallons of gas, 10 gallons of oil and a gasoline stove for Lary Gould's party. In an hour we were

headed for camp.

We looked north over the rolling

white plain and it seemed to us we could see all that we had left behind. A faw more weeks' work and then "home!"

Should Bent Storm It was a great plane with great engines. With reasonable luck we All was well again. We looked

We flew on to the right for five a 'disappointment. It should beat that storm. around. Ahead was an apparently would take us longer to reach the

My thoughts turned to Bubier, or six miles, then circled and flow limitless plateau, glistening white Pole than we had calculated, but Roth and Demas back there at Lit-left for an equal distance and fol-ready and Harold lifted the Floyd in the sunshine. The great polar we would come back faster.

tle America who had conditioned lowed our original line of flight five | Bennett easily from the snow and plateau at last! It was good to see

We took a look back at the moun- them, to my friend Edsel Ford, who or six miles further. it after the months we had wonder- tains and, when we saw their great bad built the Floyd Bennett and I had wanted to go 50 miles be- od about it and the hundreds of height, realized that we must be who was the first man five years yond the Pole instead of a half times we had asked ourselves if we

very careful to allow for the wind ago to encourage and support my dozen, but we had been a long time I saw Harold's and should ever be lucky enough to reach on the return journey. Unless we expeditions into the polar regions. In reaching it.

reached our pass or the Axel Hei- But the story would stop if I men-Bernt's anxious eyes on the gasoline To the left were great mountain berg Glacier to fly through down to tioned all those I thought of at that gauges. It would not be fair to masses

looming high above our the Barrier we might be trapped by moment. level. I would hesitate to estimate mountains we could not scale. thair altitude, but they are very high, since at this place the plateau itself was about 10,000 feet above sea level. Captain McKinley's photographs must tell the story.

Beyond this mass were separated peaks of many different shapes run- ning to the south-eastward. But could one say that they ran that way? For though they might con- tinue in the same general line, so topsy-turvy is direction here that in 150 miles they would be running north or cast. That is what hap pens near the Pole.

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We had extended the Grosvenor There were many very important Trail now so near the Pole that

When we reached the place at reasons the why the wind drift in-within easy visibility lay Scott's dicator and the sun compass should trall-Scott who with his compan- which we reached right, we open- be used with the greatest care and fons had perished on his way backed the trap door and dropped the why Bernt and Harold should steer that great soal who had shown that American flag, welghted with sarefully. Suppose the clouds should there are things more important stone from Floyd Bennett's grave. close in around the mountains than life and who in failure won' We stood and saluted the spirit of before our return.

In his memory our gallant comrade and our coun- That would in- immortal success. deed trap as.

That little silk flag and But it was one of and that of his gallant comrades try's flag. the chances we had take. "

The character of the plateau aur- face varied greatly from time to time. We saw to the left the foot of a magnificent glacier running down from the mountains and show- There was one great isolated peaking chaotic masses of crevassed ice completely snow-covered and look- shining blue against the white

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ing like a great inverted white porcelain bowl. Back of us, running east and west along the rim of the plateau, were enormous peaks lift. ing their heads high into the air.

New Range Rises

I looked over to the right and got one of these kicks that pull a man | away from civilization, which repay

him for that alone.

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snow. This may have been the "Devil's Ball Boom," that dangerous area which Amundsen traversed.

We passed over groups of hay-- cocks, those small, rounded domes of snow which cover bottomless pits. There were wind-formed sastrugi, arrow-shaped, which appeared hard, with knife edges, and glistening more in the sun than other snow surfaces.

That area must have There was a new mountain range in the distance, running north and been one of violent winds. south-a new bit of land to add to

Landing there would have been Mac would like landing among rocks. It was the map of the world. "shoot" it with his camera.

in great contrast to the surface we We felt it worth while, bringing reached later, which was smooth and him for that alone.

had the appearance of soft snow in an area of light winds.

It occurred to me as I looked around at the mountain that they must fringe the whole plateau--na- ture's great dám holding the ice and snow there until in geological ages the period would lift itself from Antarctica; until the vast amount of snow melts and runs through out- lets, the ocean that lies bolew it will not be revealed. ༣་

At present we can only guess what is beneath that great fee cap and what is its depth. It is one of the world's mysterics.

That imaginary point-the South Pole-le in the centre of an uplifted plain hundreds of miles in diameter, a magnificent edifice seemingly built to make more Inviolable the tiny spot which we were seeking.

Plateau Scemed to Slope While the mountains were still looming large on the left, we at- tempted a shot at the sun with the sextant to get its altitude and so give us a sun line that would cut our line of flight and at the point of intersection tell us what the sun had to say about our progress..

But the air was not smooth enough and the 282-horsepower en- gine in the nose of the plane, exert- ing fis great force to keep us two miles high, seemed to add to the weaving motion of the plane.

It was impossible at this time to keep the sun and bubble in the sex- tant together long enough to get a dependable sight. We hoped that things would be more favourable later on. But this did not worry us, for our distance was so short that we could hardly miss the objective. Our altimeter showed us to be keeping about the same atmospherfe pressure and we were, therefore, not changing our altitude very much.

The plateau seems to range from 7,000 to 11,000 feet in altitude. Be- yond the new mountain mass we saw a small peak sticking up through the great expanse of snow--a very lonely little black speck. It was hard to realize that it was the top I probably of á mountain about 8,000

feet above sea level, The Grow beneath is seemed to be On we went, flying at the rate of | getting farther away, so we judged 100 miles an hour through the air that the platdaily, was sloping down. toward our Foal. Our drift. Indica with a gentle incline

tor showed a wind from the lett Back in the tail of the planO WES We had to head the Floyd Bennett a meteorgesplí recording

a dozen degress to the left in order | temperature: pressure and humidity.

to dy straight south which after the fight would tell the whole story. We would know the

- It Was Imrböseible to tell dur exact altitude above the blateau, and,

Superintendent, therefore, hob tady to get thir ac-

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