OCR Text |
Show The Way to the Pole. Service witli tin; American air forces in France adds weight to the opinion of Donald I!. MaeMillnn, Arctic Arc-tic explorer and leader of tho Crocker land expedition, that the airplane is not adapted for a (lush to the pole, nnd that the cost of such a trip by dirigible would be prohibitive. In hi own future explorations, Mr. MaeMil-lan MaeMil-lan says, he expects to depend on the "ever-faithful dogs," for conveyance. The airplane is, in his judgment, impracticable im-practicable for several reasc.is. one of which is, he -says, sufficient to dis count the idea of successful Arciie exploration by hardy airmen. The frozen north offers no smooth fields of ice on which the exploier could make a landing. A dirigible might start from a properly equipped hangar In Labrador and hope to return, but the totnl cost of the expedition would probably be about $1,000,000. |