Around The World Via Both Poles
NEW YORK, Dec. 18. Members of the Chicago Adventurers' Club have planned a fligfht around the world by way of the North and South Poles. A club spokesman said today that the flight would be made early in 1950 in a Lockheed Constellation piloted by Richard Johnson, a wartime transport pilot who is now flying for the K.L.M. Dutch Airline. The project was expected to- cost more than 100,000 dollars. The flight time for the 26,000 miles was expected to be about 100 hours. The Constellation will be fttted with extra fuel tanks to give it the necessary range for five long hops. Present plans called for a Aon-0 stop flight from Chicago to Honolulu, thence to Dunedin. From New Zealand the plane would fly across the South Pole to Cape Town. From South Africa the Constellation would go to London and then soar over tlr North Pole to Chicago.
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Chronicle (Levin), 20 December 1949, Page 5
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