Flight To The South Pole

Author : Richard Evelyn Byrd
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2015-05-15
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781442241718

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Little America by Richard Evelyn Byrd Pdf

American hero and explorer Admiral Richard E. Byrd, Jr. tells the story of his first journey through Antarctica and the founding of a series of camps and bases referred to as “Little America.” Over the years, many similar areas were developed as camps and research areas on Byrd’s Antarctic missions, but the founding of “Little America” required great courage and leadership. In awe of the unforgiving landscape, he eagerly met its treacherous challenges. Byrd outlines the blueprint for his first mission to Antarctica and provides a glimpse into the obstacles he and his team overcame at the world’s end. Reissued for today’s readers, Admiral Byrd’s classic explorations by land, air, and sea transport us to the farthest reaches of the globe. As companions on Byrd’s journeys, modern audiences experience the polar landscape through Byrd’s own struggles, doubts, revelations, and triumphs and share the excitement of these timeless adventures.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 12 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Antarctica
ISBN : IND:32000006170049

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Flight to the South Pole by Anonim Pdf

Author : Polly Vacher
Publisher : Grub Street Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1904943993

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Wings Around the World by Polly Vacher Pdf

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.

Author : RICHARD EVELYN. BYRD
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1033115541

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LITTLE AMERICA by RICHARD EVELYN. BYRD Pdf

Author : Richard Evelyn Byrd
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1931
Category : Aeronautics
ISBN : LCCN:31016036

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Little America: Aerial Exploration in the Antarctic and the Flight to the South Pole by Richard Evelyn Byrd Pdf

Author : Polly Vacher
Publisher : Grub Street Publishing
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2006-11-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781909166479

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Wings Around the World by Polly Vacher Pdf

A pilot’s account of her around-the-world adventure, including color photos. On May 6, 2003, Polly Vacher, a fifty-nine-year-old mother of three, took off from an airport in Birmingham, England, seeking to become the first pilot to complete a solo flight around the world, via both Poles, in a single-engine aircraft. Despite having only a few years of flying experience, Polly had already completed a lateral solo circumnavigation of the world in 2001 for the charity Flying Scholarships for the Disabled. This second challenge, for the same charity, would make that achievement look like a casual jaunt. There would be no margin for error. Her voyage to the ice was a thirty-five thousand–mile adventure in her Piper Dakota that would take her to at least thirty different countries on every single continent. She had prepared meticulously for two years, was fully insured, and had all the requisite permits and visas. With her kinetic enthusiasm, charm, and persistence, she had already garnered numerous sponsors. However, as she took off on that blustery spring day—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 encounter extremes of weather and emotion, much kindness and obstruction, and a little political intrigue. This is the story of that adventure. “Truly inspirational.” —Aviation News

Author : Garth James Cameron
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2014-11-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781629149608

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From Pole to Pole by Garth James Cameron Pdf

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.

Author : Jennifer Murray
Publisher : PPP Company Ltd
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2009-04
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9881783119

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Polar First by Jennifer Murray Pdf

In May 2007, Jennifer Murray (68) and her co-pilot Colin Bodill (57) set a new world record by becoming the first pilots to fly a round-trip from Pole to Pole - in a helicopter. From the searing heat of the Atacama desert in Peru, over the heights of the Andes and across the hostile southern oceans, to the unforgiving cold of the Antarctic and Arctic, Polar First tells the remarkable story of Murray and Bodill¿s journey into the record books - a journey which lasted 171 days, took in 26 different countries, and covered more than 33,000 nautical miles.

Author : Elizabeth Leane
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781780236292

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South Pole by Elizabeth Leane Pdf

As one of two points where the Earth’s axis meets its surface, the South Pole should be a precisely defined place. But as Elizabeth Leane shows in this book, conceptually it is a place of paradoxes. An invisible spot on a high, featureless ice plateau, the Pole has no obvious material value, yet it is a highly sought-after location, and reaching it on foot is one of the most extreme adventures an explorer can undertake. The Pole is, as Leane shows, a deeply imagined place, and a place of politics, where a series of national claims converge. Leane details the important challenges that the South Pole poses to humanity, asking what it can teach us about ourselves and our relationship with our planet. She examines its allure for explorers such as Robert F. Scott and Roald Amundsen, not to mention the myriad writers and artists who have attempted to capture its strange, inhospitable blankness. She considers the Pole’s advantages for climatologists and other scientists as well as the absurdities and banalities of human interaction with this place. Ranging from the present all the way back to the ancient Greeks, she offers a fascinating—and lavishly illustrated—story about one of the strangest and most important places on Earth.

Author : Robert Mads Anderson,Shane Lundgren
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1998-07
Category : Aeronautics
ISBN : 1869534190

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Antonovs Over the Arctic by Robert Mads Anderson,Shane Lundgren Pdf

"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.

Author : Henry A. Bamman,Robert J. Whitehead
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Adventure stories
ISBN : STANFORD:36105049258945

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Flight to the South Pole by Henry A. Bamman,Robert J. Whitehead Pdf

Mark and Rich and their pilot, Kevin, crash during a flight over the South Pole while taking pictures for the U.S. Navy.

Author : Beau Riffenburgh
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 1274 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9780415970242

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Encyclopedia of the Antarctic by Beau Riffenburgh Pdf

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Author : Andy Wainwright
Publisher : Oakville, Ont. : Mosaic Press
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Poetry
ISBN : UOM:39015014439304

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Flight of the Falcon by Andy Wainwright Pdf

Chronicles Captain Robert Falcon Scott's 1912 trek to the South Pole, with selections from Scott's diary and counterpoints from the author.

Author : Geoff Douglas
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1548623180

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Admiral Richard E. Byrd's Missing Diary by Geoff Douglas Pdf

In the winter of 1947, Admiral Richard E. Byrd allegedly flew a secret mission across the frozen waters of the arctic. There, he claimed to have seen a previously unknown land with forests and even prehistoric animals. Even more incredible, he encountered flying discs from a technologically advanced civilization hidden deep within the hollow Earth. This incredible adventure is revealed in Byrd's diary which had been missing for many years. Had it been sealed away by the U.S. government in fear of the haunting message given to Byrd by the inhabitants of the hollow Earth? Or is the truth even more shocking? We now know that at the time referenced in Byrd's missing diary, he had actually been part of the Navy mission to Antarctica called Operation Highjump. This mission may have been a massive operation to uncover a secret Nazi stronghold hidden away in Antarctica...a stronghold that allegedly had a connection to Hitler's search for the entrance into the hollow Earth. This is the mystery. What is the secret of Admiral Richard E. Byrd's Missing Diary? Is it government disinformation to hide Byrd's search for the last remnants of the Third Reich? Or is it a warning for the inhabitants of the surface world..."Change your warlike ways before it is too late!" Admiral Richard E. Byrd's Missing Diary is a shocking revelation of the mystery of the Hollow Earth and the possible secret origin of UFOs, which was called "The Greatest Secret Since the Manhattan Project!" A Zontar Press Book

Author : Miguel Angel Gordillo,Peter Schneider,Rita Schneider
Publisher : polflug.com
Page : 8 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-25
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9783000674037

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SkyPolaris - A Record-Breaking Global Flight by Miguel Angel Gordillo,Peter Schneider,Rita Schneider Pdf

Miguel Angel Gordillo is the first man who circumnavigated the earth over both poles in a homebuilt aircraft under 1750 kg. In 2016 he covered 41,000 nm in two legs in the shape of an eight at extreme flight conditions over desert, jungle, mountains, ocean and ice. This earned him the world record of the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI). The scientific, aeronautical and personal challenges, experiences and encounters on his flight over both poles provided the extraordinary material for this book to document the uniqueness of his world record in words and pictures.