TO THE POLES BY AIR.
PRESENT. METHODS OBSOLETIi. USE OF MODERN AIRCRAFT. By Telegraph.—Press Assn. —Copyright. Received August 4, 5.5 p.m. London, August 3. Major Carr, the Quest’s air scout, believes the present methods of polar exploration are obsolete and in future it will be done with aircraft dbring summer months. This view Iras -been formed as a result of the Quest’s cruise. He said fe’fr people realise the mildness of the Arctic and Antarctic summers. A German airship of modern type is capable of doing the return trip to the North Pole from London within a week. Before long we will have Polar explorations without years of work and hardship.—United Service.
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Taranaki Daily News, 5 August 1922, Page 5
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112TO THE POLES BY AIR. Taranaki Daily News, 5 August 1922, Page 5
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