PROPOSED POLAR FLIGHT.
Capt. Wilkins’s 111-Luck.
THIRD MACHINE WRECKED. By Cable—Press Association —Copyright. Reuter’s Telegrams. (Received March 2.1, 5.5 p.m.) NEW YORK, March 19. A message from Fairbanks (Alaska) stales the last of the three aeroplanes to lie used by Captain George Wilkins in connection with his proposed polar flight, was wrecked on Friday, when iho landing gear of the Detroiter threeengine machine was buckled, throwing tile plane on its hose. An engine was thrown out, and the propellers bent. The plane was being .started on its first test flight, and had travelled but forty feet along the ground when the mishap occurred. The accident will delay Captain Wilkins's party from starting the expedition. Tiie Detroiter was scheduled to leave in a day or two for Point Barrow, the Arctic coast supply base of the enterprise. On Thursday, a single-engine piano was partly wrecked on alighting alter a trial, and another was destroyed by iiro in Detroit on January IT.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXIII, 22 March 1926, Page 9
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160PROPOSED POLAR FLIGHT. Timaru Herald, Volume CXXIII, 22 March 1926, Page 9
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