Our Polar Flight

Our Polar Flight PDF Author: Roald Amundsen
Publisher: New York : Dodd, Mead
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Category : Aeronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 434

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Our Polar Flight

Our Polar Flight PDF Author: Roald Amundsen
Publisher: New York : Dodd, Mead
ISBN:
Category : Aeronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 434

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OUR POLAR FLIGHT

OUR POLAR FLIGHT PDF Author: ROALD. AMUNDSEN
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ISBN: 9781033161043
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Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Our Polar Flight

Our Polar Flight PDF Author: Roald Amundsen
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780282555122
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 422

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Excerpt from Our Polar Flight: The Amundsen-Ellsworth Polar Flight The Crew of N 25: ruser-larsen, Amundsen, Feucht The Crew of N 24: Ellsworth, Dietrichson, Omdal Photograph of Amundsen's Machine Taken in Flight When the two Planes Were Near Each Other. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Wings Around the World

Wings Around the World PDF Author: Polly Vacher
Publisher: Grub Street Publishing
ISBN: 9781904943990
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Polly Vacher wanted to become the first pilot to complete a solo flight around the world via both Poles in a single-engine aircraft. Her 60,000 mile voyage would take her to every continent. She prepared meticulously for two years and had garnered multifarious sponsors. However, as she took off, flanked by a Hurricane and a Spitfire, and waved off by her family and the Prince of Wales, she suddenly felt so alone. She had begun a remarkable expedition that would gain her three world records, but would also see her encounter extremes of weather and emotion, kindness, obstruction and also a little political intrigue.

The World's Work

The World's Work PDF Author:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 894

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Antonovs Over the Arctic

Antonovs Over the Arctic PDF Author: Robert Mads Anderson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781869534196
Category : Aeronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 240

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"Six explorers set out in a pair of Russian biplanes, the Antonov A-2, to recreate [the] historic ... flight by George Wilkins and Ben Eielson"--Jacket flap.

Among Our Books

Among Our Books PDF Author: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classified catalogs (Dewey decimal)
Languages : en
Pages : 882

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Umberto Nobile And the Arctic Search for the Airship Italia

Umberto Nobile And the Arctic Search for the Airship Italia PDF Author: Garth Cameron
Publisher: Fonthill Media
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 359

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By the time it was over, eight of the crew and nine rescuers were dead and scores more had been put in harm’s way. The disappearance and search for the airship Italia was headline news, all over the world, for months after its last radio message on 25 May 1928. It had reported being to the north-east of its base at Kings Bay, on the Arctic island of Spitsbergen, returning from a long flight to Greenland and the North Pole. Ships, aircraft and men from many countries converged on Kings Bay to participate in the rescue effort. The Italian airship designer and pilot Umberto Nobile had flown to the North Pole and beyond in 1926. He resolved to return to the Arctic with a new airship in 1928. The expedition had geographical and scientific aims, but the political environment was also an important motivator. Benito Mussolini and his fascist party had come to power in 1922 and a successful expedition to the Arctic would be excellent propaganda.

The Ice Balloon

The Ice Balloon PDF Author: Alec Wilkinson
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307741869
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 257

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In 1897, at the height of the heroic age of Arctic exploration, the visionary Swedish explorer S. A. Andrée made a revolutionary attempt to discover the North Pole by flying over it in a hydrogen balloon. Thirty-three years later, his expedition diaries and papers would be discovered on the ice. Alec Wilkinson uses the explorer’s papers and contemporary sources to tell the full story of this ambitious voyage, while also showing how the late 19th century’s spirit of exploration and scientific discovery drove over 1,000 explorers to the unforgiving Arctic landscape. Suspenseful and haunting, Wilkinson captures Andrée’s remarkable adventure and illuminates the detail, beauty, and devastating conditions of traveling and dwelling on the ice.

From Pole to Pole

From Pole to Pole PDF Author: Garth James Cameron
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1629149608
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 280

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Roald Amundsen was the most successful polar explorer of his era using sledges, dogs, skis, and ships. He is mainly remembered for being the first man to reach the South Pole on December 14, 1911. What is less often remembered is that he was also the first man to reach the North Pole on May 12, 1926 as the leader of the Amundsen-Ellsworth-Nobile expedition in the airship Norge. His involvement in aviation from his experiments with man-lifting kites in 1909 to his death in 1928 while flying from Norway to Spitsbergen has not been the subject of a detailed study until now. From Pole to Pole explores Amundsen’s enthusiasm for flight from the moment he read about Bleriot’s flight across the English Channel in an airplane. In June 1928 Amundsen and five companions took off in a search and rescue flight for the missing airship Italia and were never seen again. The only traces of the men and their aircraft were a tip float and an empty fuel tank which washed up on the coast of Northern Norway several months later. Searches of the seabed near Bear Island for the remains of the Latham 47 flying boat he was flying in took place in 2004 and 2009 and interest in the mystery of his disappearance remains high. Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade imprint, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in history--books about World War II, the Third Reich, Hitler and his henchmen, the JFK assassination, conspiracies, the American Civil War, the American Revolution, gladiators, Vikings, ancient Rome, medieval times, the old West, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.