Richard E. Byrd's

Greenland Flight

Aircraft

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Westward

Flying at 1500 feet over the ice of Smith Sound in the summer.

The 24 hour sun has melted  much of the snow off the ice leaving it rough and corrugated

 

North Greenland

Byrd and Bennett Loening amphibian plane NA-1 at Etah.

The boat was floated ashore, the wheels put down, the plane hauled on the rocky beach and the wings put on.

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source: Byrd, Richard, Skyward, New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1928

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