rae Kixcsno north as the ice would permit and Yemiain there as the principal base.
Flights would thereafter be made towards the north and if conditions permitted a depot would be es-published in the vicinity of the pole. The planes would make several flights from the base to the depdt and back depositing gasoline and supplies at the depot on each trip in lorder that the planes on the final dash could refuel at the depot and [continue on the flight to Alaska.
Let it immediately be understood [that the object of the Trans-Polar Flight is not to rediscover the North Pole, nor to find and annex a possible Arctic continent, but to explore the one million squfive miles of unknown territory between the North Pole never be possible on the Atlantic Ocean.
Whether successful or unsuccessfal, a Trans-Polar Flight will be an extraordinary event in the history of aviation, and will greatly serve to its further development.
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