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1— To provo th at a ir navi­
gation In the A rctic Is feas­
ible and th a t freight and m es­
senger travel over the top of
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2— To hunt for new land
In the unexplored areas of
MODERN home built In the A rctic
the Arctic.
defied the death-dealing cold of the
8—To conquer the N orth
Polar Regions and proved an In­
Pole from the a ir as a sport-
valuable aid to L ieutenant Commander
lug adventure and as a dem­
Richard E. B yrd In his successful flight to
onstration of w hat a plana
the N orth Pole, which he circled three
can do—not a geographical
times In a record breaking flight of 1,500
study, ns the Pole w as bagged
miles In 15 hours and 30 m inutes a t an
for all tim e by Admiral Peary.
average speed of 98.75 miles an hour.
Probably no one knows more about
It was a t th e Spltzbergen base, King’s
A rctic flying thnn Commander Byrd. From
Bay, w here th is first modern house was
the G reenland base of the MacMillan ex­
pedition a t E tah la st year he flew 3,000
constructed am id the snow and Ice of the
Arctic Im mediately upon th e arrival of
tulles over the Arctic, studying the bo-
Lieutenant B yrd and his companions, as
havlor of oil, motors, compasses, and
other navigation Instrum ents at g reat
a perm anent home and observation sta ­
altitudes over the P olar sea.
tion for th é explorers. The house, which
W ith him th is time Commander B yrd took a noted fuel
n a « to the I k Î o ^ om T
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expert, who Is Flying Commander G, O. Noble, as It
plete radîo o. X î h . r
“ ’ ’" W * “ » " » h a com ­
requires great skill and pnlns to prevent the freezing
plete radio outfit th a t those who rem ained at the base
of lubricating oil aud stlffoued action of the motors, If
while L ieutenant Byrd m ade his thrill,ng dash to the
forced to w ork on the plane In the open at g reat
ft. ,
m ? " P r 51“* F okker n"« bt
In touch with
altitudes w ith the therm om eter a t tJO to 70 below zero.
their chief and th e outside world, which they kept in-
The points which favored the month of May w ere th a t
formed as to the progress and success of the flight
the Arctic fog had not begun pi rise and heavy snows still
It w as to this sam e home th a t he returned a fter his
covered th e land and ufforded many good landing places.
hazardous trip and from which some of the first mas
A factor of safety pointed out by Comm ander Byrd In
™ge9 i T T ,Sent t0 the W“ lt,D« '"*»< ’• telling them
connection with the use of the Fokker machlno Is th a t It
th o u g h the lanes of th e a ir th a t Byrd had circled the
carries a reserve engine. It has three engines. W ith a
Pole three tim es and had returned to his Spltzbergen
light load one Is expected to be sufficient to m aintain thw
t „ ° X hi’ ? y' r d? ‘ng ° “ e Of
moat c r i b l e pageS
plane In flight. With a normal load, two engines will do
to the history of A rctic exploration.
k
the work. If two engines break down at one time, when
S u g a r C a n e F i g h t . P o la r N o r th .
th e plane Is not too heavily loaded, It may fly w ith th a
W hen L ieutenant Byrd left the Brooklyn Navy Y ard on
use of one engine. The F okker machine has a wing-
th© sliip C hantier he declared he had the best and most
spread of slightly more than 64 feet. I t is said to bo
scientifically equipped expedition th a t ever had started
a marvel of airship construction.
fo r th e N orth Pole. Special plans w ere made for the
The other nlrplune—the C urtis O riole—w as to have
erection of his A rctic home. Boards of celotex Insulating
been used chiefly In finding landing Helds so th a t If
lum ber m ade from bagasse (sugar cane fiber a fte r all
the tilers found th eir niuin landing place covered with a
su g a r Juices have been extracted) w ere carried along
fog they might go elsewhere.
w ith the la te st inventions to aid In polar exploration.
The C hantler was equipped w ith a powerful radio tra n s ­
T his building m aterial Is very light uud Is filled with
m itter to send back the news of the expedition. The
millions of a ir cells, which give It g reat Insulation value
Fokker also Is equipped with a receiving aud tra n s­
and resistance to change In tem perature, especially the
m itting set. Commander Byrd not only kept the world
severe cold. One odd circum stance In connection with
luformed of the progress of the expedition, but received
the use of th is m aterial Is th a t the sugar cane of the
through the C hantler w eather w arnings to guide him In
south w as utilized to fight th e cold of the north.
his flight.
Celotex w as selected instead of lum ber because te sts
How E xpedition W as E q u ip p e d .
m ade by th e United States B ureau of S tandards and
Forty-five hundred pounds of whole beef w ere Included
Its universal use In building construction all over the
In the rations of the Byrd crew of forty-seven fliers,
world, had dem onstrated th a t this insula,lug lumber
seamen and technicians. Also four hundred pounds of
would keep the quarters of the explorers w arm er and
pemmlcan (m eat fats and raisins), huge quantities of
protect th e ir living conditions more securely than ordi­
bacon, dried milk, erbsw urst (pea soup) and other su|>-
n ary building m aterial.
plles In proportion were carried along. Cod liver oil w as
It w as only a fte r careful investigation by the scientific
Included for Its healthful properties. H erbert Griggs,
men In the expedition th a t celotex was selected. These
who hud charge of provisioning P eary's expedition In his
au th o rities pointed out th a t the protection afforded by
famous dash to the Pole, worked out the rations for the
Its insulation eflScIency w as three times as greut as ordi­
Byrd explorers. Two pounds per mnn per day was the
n ary lum ber and nearly tw elve tim es as g reat as that
allowance to tak e care of all emergencies.
o f brick and other masonry m aterial. The ship C hantier
No am ount of clothing Is really sufficient when flying
also w as lined w ith celotex aa an added precaution to
1,000 or more feet In the a ir In tho 1’olHr regions, hut
keep the ship w arm while th e explorers used it In the
every possible precaution was taken by Commander Byrd
prelim inary stages of th e expedition.
against exposure. The men wero equipped with the
w arm est aud lightest of reindeer suits and with fu r
In practically every other way thia expedition w as
m ore scientifically prepared than any of Its predeces­
parkas, a garm ent th at reaches to the knees and has a
sors.
These Included Inventions of Commander Ityrd
hood covering the head. Plenty of goggles w ere,found
him self. A simple sun compass conceived by Byrd and
to tie un absolute necessity to protect them against tha
glare of the snow.
developed by Mr. Bumstead of the N ational Geographic
Society, superseded the complicated German device, d e ­
In spite of all the precautions th e undertaking w as
veloped three years ago for Amundsen. The drift in­
full of unsw u danger. None of this equipm ent would lie
dicator also w as Byrd's Invention. The bubble sextant
of the slightest avail against some unexpected and un­
by which the navigator ob tains his bearings while In
precedented situation which might arise. T here Is alw ays
flight w as another one of his Inventions. Still another
the danger of stuiwbllndnegs, exhaustion, freezing, soino
s d e n tlc development was a quick method of telling when
mishap to the engine. L ieutenant Byrd and his com­
one Is a t the North Pole. This has been w orked out
panions, however, were particularly fortunate In escnplng
b y O. W. L lttlehales, the navy's hydrographic engineer
with practically no 111 effects except tha exhaustion dua
to such a perilous trip.
D a v ie , L o c a te , t h , P o l,.
Pick Up lea Pilot.
B yrd and others contributed to a ch art of the mag­
The ship Chantler*« first stop was a t Tromso, Norway,
netic lines flowing tow ard the m agnetic N orth Pole,
w here un Ice skipper w as taken on to pilot the C hsntler
which Is In B olthla Land. l,2t)0 miles south of the Pole.
and Its crew through (he Ice-tilled w aters around Spits­
B etw een Bolthla Land and the Pole the enw pass points
bergen to King's Buy, w here preparations for the first
south Instead of north and over much o f the A rctic
flight to the Pole were made. The planes, the Instrum ents
It la badly disturbed by the discrepancy of position be­
and the various oil mixture« used in connection with tha
tw een the geographical N orth Pole and the m agnetic
airship tests, w ere carefully examined and tested. Lieu­
N orth Pole.
tenant Byrd’s original plans called for six flights ns follows •
Thia ch art of the m agnetic lines, flowing trf the mag­
1— A 4tSMulle flight Irom Spitsbergen to P eary Land
netic N orth Pole, although It w as far from complete, wus
to unload oil, provision» and equipm ent a t a place tliut
such as to enable the navigator to tell In w hat direction
looks prom ising for a landing
th e compass should point from any spot In the Arctic.
2— A 460-mlle flight back to Spltzbergen.
W ith this knowledge, the erratic behavior of the com­
8—A second 400-mlle flight from Rpltzbergeu to Peary
pass becomes orderly and It Is once again a useful Instru­
I .and base with fu rth er food, fuel and equipm ent
ment.
4— An 850-mile flight to apd around the Pole and back
A th ird type of compass used was a device of Infinite
to the P eary base.
sensitiveness—a revolving electrical coll, w hich Is ad­
5— An 800-mIle round trip flight to the northw est over
ju sted to a given relation w ith the m agnetism of the
unexplorod ureas in seurch of new lands.
earth. This, the sun compass, and the m agnetic com­
6— A 400-mile flight from the Peary Ijm d base back to
pass w ere each used to correct the other
Spltzbergen.
L ieutenant Byrd In his flight used a quick method of
It was bis plan In bis second flight to attem pt to dis­
telling when he w as actually a t the Pole. T his was the
cover new land, but when he received the report of the
invention worked out by Mr. Llttlehales, the U. S.
flight of Amundsen In his dirigible. In which 1t w as stated
Navy hydrographic engineer. It shows the sun's posi­
th a t the Norge had failed to find any trace of new
tion from the N orth Pole a t every hour of the day and
land, L ieutenant Byrd decided to abandon fu rth er flights
every day of the year. When the flyer Is n ear the Pole
und the trip over land on »led« he had planned In hl«
be can. by ascertaining the exact position of the sun,
search for new land In unexplored areas. Now he ha«
prove th a t he Is n ear the Pole.
decided to try to accomplish by airship a t the Month
F l ie . 3 ,0 0 0 M il e . O v e r A rc tic .
Pole w hat he did at the North. As he left the Spits­
The expedition, backed by such men as John D.
bergen base he stated th a t he would have Just as well
Rockefeller. Jr., and Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., had three
an equipped expedition for bis southern flight as he had
B v r d In
A irs h ip
and
Doughnut
B o a t.
A
main objecta
In hl« recent adventure In the North.