Show modern home aided by rd pole ole dash a S h sugar cane fought cold of north X ti X 0 J 4 OWN a a t all I 1 K A I 1 X W 1 I 1 7 y 1 11 Z A X 1 1 MAN II 11 al 4 ift V st 7 t al 11 the house in 0 arctic 7 A ji loading L 3 ship for trip bvrd in airship and doughnut I 1 boat 9 MODERN lionie built in III the arctic A defied the bentli cold of tile polar iolar regions and proved un in tible ald to lieutenant commander richard E byrd in III lils his successful flight tl ti tile noth north pole which lie circled three times lines in III a record breaking light flight ot of 1500 mills in 15 hours and 30 ini tit at nn all average speed of tin nn hour it ans tit lit the spitzbergen SpItz bergen buse anse icings lay hay where this first modern house w waa aa constructed amid tile snow and tee ice of th the arctic immediately upon the arrival of i J lieutenant hyrd byrd and ills his companions na is it a permanent home find observation station forthe for the in explorers the house which rose up on tile horizon of the frigid north in marked contrast to the lie igloo of the es klino kinio was equipped with it eilan complete radio outfit that those who ni fit tile base while lieutenant byrd enado ill ills 13 thrilling dash to tile the polo in ills speeding folium r might keep in III touch with licar their chief and the outside world will ell they kept t informed forill ed iw As to the alie progress and success of tile flight it ans to tills this same sallie home that lie returnee returned after his hazardous trip find from which some holle of the first messages were sent to tile walting waiting public telling tailing filera till tile lanes anes of thu the air that layrd lind orel circled e it tit alio L polo pole three oliree times and had returned to lila 1118 hoine in III safety adding one of tle most memorable pages to the history of arctic exploration sugar cane came fights fight polar north when lieutenant byrd left the brooklyn rooklyn Il navy yard on the still chantler lie declared lie he had tile the best find and most scientifically equipped expedition that ever lini had started for the north pole special plans were vote made for the erection of ints his arctic home hoards boards of insulating lumber anade from barange sugar cane liber fiber after till nil begar juices have been extracted were carried along with the latest inventions to ald aid in polar exploration tills this building Is very light and Is filled with millions of air cells which give it great insulation value ind resistance to chiango in temperature especially the cold one odd circumstance tit in connection with the hie use of this material Is that the sugar cane of tha bouth was utilized to light the cold of the lie north was selected instead of lumber because tests made by tile united states bureau of standards nud and its universal use in building construction all over the world lind had demonstrated that tills this insulating lumber would keep keel the quart quarterma qu artera erit of tile explorers warmer find and protect their living conditions mo securely than ordinary building material it was only after careful by the scientific men in III the expedition that was selected these authorities pointed out that the protection afforded by its insulation was three times as great as ordinary lumber and nearly twelve times as aa great as that of brick brich and other masonry material the ship chantler akiso luso WEIS lined with as tin nn added precaution to keep heep the ship warin while the explorers used it in the preliminary stages of the expedition in III practically every other oilier way this expedition was inore scientifically prepared than any of its predecessors tho these included inventions of commander byrd himself A cample sun compass conceived by byrd and developed by sir Bun Il umstead istead of tile the national geographic society superseded the complicated german device de d three years ago for amundsen the drift indicator also was byrds invention the bubble sextant by which the navigator obtains tits his bearings ben rings while in flight was another one of tits his inventions still another tle development was a n quick method of telling when one Is ot at the north pole tills this has been worked out by 0 IV littlehales the navys hydrographic lc engineer device locates locate the pole byrd and others contributed to it a chart of the magnetic lines flowing oward the magnetic north pole which Is in land 1200 miles south of tile polo pole between Bolth lit land nod the polo pole the caminas points south instead of north prid over much of the arctic it Is badly disturbed by the discrepancy of position between tile geographical north pole and tho magnetic north pole tills this chart of the magnetic lines flowing to the magnetic north pole although it was far from complete was tuch such na as to enable the navigator to tell in what direction tile the compass should point from any pot in the arctic with this knowledge the me erratic behavior of tho the corn con becomes orderly and it la Is once again a useful instrument A third type ot of compass used was a device of infinite sensitiveness a revolving electrical coll coil which is adjusted to a given relation with the magnetism of the alia earth this the sun corni and the magnetic compass were ench each ased to correct tile the other lieutenant byrd in hla his flight used a n quick method of telling when he was actually at tho the pole this was tho the invention worked out by mr littlehales the U B S navy le en engineer gincer it A shows tile the suns muns position from the north pole at every hour of the jay day and day of the year when ee 0 flyer ii near tho the polo pole ile he run can by ascertaining the exact position of the sun son prove that to le Is near the pole flies miles over arctic ille alie expedition backed by such men na as john D rockefeller jt jr vid theodore theodora roosevelt Rooseve 4 jr bad three vuda mun objects nal I 1 to prove t that at imir favl i j ga gatlon on in n t tho a arctic rc ic to la feasible feass ible nuil and that freight and moa mes j travel over the top of j the world to la certain to come g 2 to hunt for now land lit in the unexplored areas of the arctic 8 3 to conquer tho north polo from tho the as a sporting adventure andas and aa a demonstration on of it what a plane enn can donot do not it ft geographical study its as the polo aoa bogged for ill III time by admiral peary probably no ono one knows moro more about arctic hying flying than commander byrd from the Oreen greenland land base babe of tho the macmullan expedition tion nt E atah tali last year lie ho lew flew miles over tho the arctic studying tho the bo be halor of oil nio motors torn compasses compass ca and other navigation instruments at great attitudes over tho the polar sea with hill tills this time commander byrd took a noted fuel exper expert I 1 who la is flying filing commander 0 0 noble na as it requires great skill an and d pains to prevent the freezing of oil and stiffened action ot of tho the motors if 11 forced to work on oil tho the plane piano in tile the open it nt t great alti with the thermometer at CO 30 to 70 below zero the points which favored tile the month of may were that th the arctic eArdle fog hul not begun to rise and heavy snows still covered tile anti and afforded afforde amany many good landing places A factor of pointed out by commander byrd in connection with the uso use fokker machine Is that it ell carreca ari Cs a reserve engine it has three engines with n light load fond expected to ilent to maintain the piano in III light flight with ith a normal load two engines will do the work if two engines break down tit at ono one time when tile the plane piano Is not too heavily loaded it may fly with the use of one engine tile the folcker machine has a wingspread of slightly more than 04 foot feet it Is said oah to bo be n marvel of fili airship construction tile other tho curtla curtis oriole was to have been used chilly in finding landing fields so that if tho the fliers found their main landing place covered with ft a fog they might go elsewhere the was equipped with a powerful radio trans to send pond back the news of the expedition alo ako fokker also Is equipped with a receiving atrid transmitting set met commander byrd not only kept the world informed of the progress of the expedition but received through the chantler Chantl cr weather warnings to guirle him in tits bis night flight how flow expedition was equipped forty five hundred pounds of whole beef were ln included eluded in tile rations of the byrd crew of forty seven fliers filers seamen and also four hundred pounds of pemmican motif fats fata and raisins huge quantities of bacon tied dried milk erbs pea soup and other supplies in proportion were carried caralea along cod liver oil was included for its healthful properties herbert griggs who had charge of provisioning peares exI expedition edItIon in his famous lash to the pole worked out the rations for tile the byrol explorers two pounds per man per day was tho ilia allowance to take care of all emergencies no amount of 0 clothing Is really suM sufficient clent when flying 1000 or mote more feet in tho the air in tho the polar regions but every possible precaution was taken by commander byrd against exposure tho the men were equipped with the warmest ani lightest of reindeer solta salts and with fur parkas a garment that readies reaches to tho knees find and has a hood covering tile ho hear head plenty of goggles were found to be an all absolute necessity to protect them against the glare of the snow in spite of fill all tho the precautions the undertaking was waa full of danger none of this equipment would bo be of the slightest avail against some unexpected and unprecedented situation which might arise there Is always tile dunger danger of exhaustion freezing some mishap to tile tho engine lieutenant byrd ond and tits hla companion pari lomi i however were particularly fortunate in escaping with practically no III effects except tho the exhaustion exhaust loa duo due to such a 1 perilous arilous trip pick up ico ice pilot tho the ship Chant lers first stop was at norway where an lee ico skipper was taken on to pilot the Cb chantler antler and its crevi through the ice filled waters around spitz hergen bergon to kings bay where preparations for the fir first ii light flight to the pole were made the planes the instruments find the various oil mixtures used in connection with the airship tests testa were carefully examined and tested lieutenant original plans called for six flights as follows 1 A mile fl hight glit from spitsbergen SpItz bergen to peary land to unload oil provIs provisions lons find and equipment at a place that looks promising for a landing 2 A nille mile night flight back to 8 3 A second light flight from SpItz spitzbergen bergen to peary y land base with further food fuel and equipment 4 an ruile flight to and around the pole ond and back to the peary base e 5 an milo round trip night flight to the northwest over 1 ia I areu areas 3 in search ot of now new lands 0 A 00 rolle night flight from froin tho the peary land base bach mackto to SpItz spitzbergen bergen I 1 it was wag hla his plan in tits his second flight to attempt to discover new land but when he received the report of the night flight of amundsen in his dirigible in which it was stated that the norge had failed to find tiny trace of now nowa land Llou lieutenant tenant byrd decided to aD uldon further flights and the trip over land on sleds he had planned in his hia search for new land in unexplored areas are now lie ho has decided to try to 0 o accomplish by at tho the south pole what ho he did tit nt the north As he left tho the splat bergen n base lie he stated elated that ho he would havo have just as well an equipped for tits ills southern flight OB as he had in hla his rt recent cent adventure inthe 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