Show I Pole Flying Flying Pilot 1 I Says Russia Could Do Same SameI t I NEW YORK l Ia May 31 UP UP- UP Charles F. F Blair Jr 11 first pilot to hop across the North Pole alone in a single plane viewed his flight Thursday as a simple jaunt that air Jines and Russians could follow with case Blair a handsome year old air nil line chief pilot completed I his transpolar trip from Bardu- Bardu foss Norway to Fairbank Alaska Alaska Alaska Alas Alas- ka in 10 hours and 30 minutes lie He catnapped for an hour at Fairbanks Wednesday picked up upa a beef sandwich and flew nonstop nonstop non stop slop back to New York in 91 hours explaining he was scheduled sched sched- tiled to return to work for Pan- Pan American Airl Airlines nes Thursday I 2000 at Airport I IA A crowd of about 2000 cheered I Blair as he landed his maroon I Mustang Excalibur III III at International International International Inter Inter- national Airport at pm p.m. I EDT He lie averaged mph on the flight Flying over the North Pole was a rather easy feat the haggard hag hagBard Bard gard ard sleepy-eyed sleepy pilot said after I holding hands with his attractive wife Janice and their month 14 old son Chris He lie said a commercial air line could operate across the frozen polar wastelands and that goes for the Russians too Blairs Blair's face was sunburned because the canopy over his cockpit offered him little little little lit lit- tle protection from rays of oC th the midnight sun during durin his mile flight from to Fairbanks The Arctic is just about like any other ocean Blair said Up at ft it was quite warm In fact I did not even have ha my cockpit heater on t Tells Santa Hello I He told his son the flight gave gave him a chance to say hello to Santa Claus and I dropped a note to him over the pole Blair said the plane performed beautifully during the entire trip |