The Monmouth inquirer. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1865-1933, 1926-07-15

With him this time Commander Byrd took noted fuel
expert who is Flying Commander g. 0. Noble, as II
requires great skill and pains prevent the freezing
of lubricating oil and sffened action of the motors, II
forced to work the plane In the open at great
attitudes with thermometer at so to 20 below
The points which favored the month Of May that
fog had not begun to rise and heavy SHOWS still
covered the land and afforded many good landing places
Of safety pointed out by Commander Byrd In
connection with the use Of machine Is that It
carries engine. 1t has three engines With a
light load expected to be sufficient to maintain the
plane in flight With normal load two engines will do
the work If engines break down at time when
the plane is too heavily loaded 1t may fly witt the
use Of one engine The Fokker machine has wing
spread Of slightly than Ga feet 1t is said to be
q marvel of airshp construction.
The other airplane-the Curtis Oriole-was to have
been used chiefly in finding landing fields that If
the fiers found their main landing place covered with
fog they might 81 elsewhere.
The Chanter equipped with powerful radio trans
mitter to send back the of the expedition The
Fokker also is equipped with receiving and trans
hitting set Commander Byrd not only kept the world
informed of the of the expedition but received
through the Chaner weather warnings to guide him In
his flight.
How Expedition Was Equipped.
Forty-hve hundred pounds of whole beef included
In the ratons of the Byrd of forty-seven iers
and technicans. Also four hundred pounds Of
pemmican (meat fats and rasins), huge quantities Of
bacon dried milk, erbswurst (pea soup) and other sup
plies In proportion carried along Cod liver oil
included for its healthfu properties Herbert Grggs
who had charge of provisioning Pearys expedition In his
famous dash to the Pole worked the raons the
Byrd explorers. Two pounds per per day the
allowance to take care of all emergencies.
No amount of clothing is really sufficient when flying
1000 feet in the air In the Polar regions but
every possible precaution taken by Commander Byrd
against exposure The equipped with the
warmest and lghtest Of reindeer suits and with fur
parkas garment that reaches to the knees and has
hood covering the head Plenty of goggles found
to be absolute necessity protect them against the
glare of the
In spite of all the precautions the undertaking was
full of unseen danger None of this equipment would be
Of the slightest avail against unexpected and
precedened situation which might arise There is always
the danger of snowblindnesS exhaustion freezing some
mishap to the engine Lieutenant Byrd and his COM
panons however particularly fortunate in escaping
with practically i'll effects except the exhaustion due
to such perilous trip
Pick Up Ice Pilot.
The ship Chanter's first stop was at Tromso Norway,
where ice skipper taken to pilot the Chantier
and its through the iceled waters around Spz-
bergen to Kings Bay where preparations for the first
fight to the Pole made The planes the instruments
the various oil mixtures used in connection with the
airshp tests carefully examined tested Lieu
Byrd original plans called for six flights follows
Ia 4O0-mile flight from Spitzbergen to Peary Land
to unload OIL provisions and equipment at place that
looks promising for landing
PA 4OOmIe flight back to Spitzbergen
"a second 400-mile flight from Spitzbergen Peary
Land base with further food fuel and equipment.
AN S50-mle fight to and around the Pole and back
to the Peary base.
SAN 8O0-me round trip fight to the northwest over
upexplored in search of lands
GA 400mie fight from the Peary Land base back to
Spitzbergen.
1t his plan in his second flight to attempt to dis.
land but when he received the report the
flight of Amundsen In his drigibe in which 1t stated
that the Norge had failed to find any trace of new
land Lieutenant Byrd decided to abandon further flights
and the trip land sleds he had planned his
search for land in unexplored areas. Now he has
decided to try accomplish by arshp at the South
Pole what he did at the North AS he left the Spitx-
bergen base he stated that he would have Just as well
an equipped expedition for his southern fight as he had
in his recent adventure In the North