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Northrop Gamma Polar Star (photo)

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SMT1217160
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Northrop Gamma Polar Star (photo)
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National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, USA
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On November 23, 1935, explorer Lincoln Ellsworth, with pilot Herbert Hollick-Kenyon, took off in their Northrop Gamma "Polar Star" from Dundee Island in the Weddell Sea and headed across Antarctica to Little America. Fuel exhaustion forced them to land 25 miles short of their goal on December 5, and walk for six days to reach their destination. The British Research Society ship Discovery II sighted them on January 15, 1936, near the Bay of Whales. Hollick-Kenyon later returned to recover the Polar Star. The dent in the fuselage behind the engine was caused by a hard landing on the polar ice. The total distance flown by the Polar Star before its forced landing was about 2,400 miles.

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© Smithsonian Institution / Bridgeman Images
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