TRIBUTE TO EIELSON
STEFANSSON PRAISES LOST ARCTIC FLYER NEW YORK, Monday. Ia an interview at Minneapolis, Minnesota, the famous explorer Slefansson paid a tribute to Lieutenant Carl Eielson, whose wrecked airplane has been found in Siberia. He describes the lost airman as one of the greatest pilots who ever lived. The world, _ particularly the North, has lost a 'great man. Sadly enough, says Stefansson, Eielson was the first life to be lost, in Arctic flying. Amundsen was lost in the open Atlantic. The explorer says he considers Orville Wright's first flight of SOOft was greater, but the only one that was greater, than the flight over the Arctic me.de by Sir Hubert Wilkins and Eielson.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 883, 29 January 1930, Page 9
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115TRIBUTE TO EIELSON Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 883, 29 January 1930, Page 9
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