Details of planes used on two expeditions to South Pole; Wilkins' plane is Lockheed Vega monoplane powered by Whirlwind engine and fitted with Fairchild special pontoons for landing on ice as well as water; Byrd expedition employed Fokker Super Universal monoplane fitted with Pratt and Whitney Wasp engine, Fairchild Cabin, Ford, three-engined, and Aristocrat monoplanes, and DeHavilland Moth; special equipment.
Antarctic exploration by air
Flight
Flight ; 21 , n 3
1929
2 pages
1 Fig.
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Englisch
© Metadata Copyright Elsevier B. V. All rights reserved.
Japanese Antarctic exploration ship
Engineering Index Backfile | 1965
The Antarctic analogy for lunar exploration
NTRS | 1967
|AIAA-2005-2506 Antarctic Exploration: Proxy for Safe, Sustainable Exploration of the Moon and Mars
British Library Conference Proceedings | 2005
|An Antarctic Research Outpost as a Model for Planetary Exploration Abstract
British Library Conference Proceedings | 1997
|