Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-23
Decides on Route Across
Canada, Alaska and ST.
IBERIA to Japan.
"GREAT CIRCLE" COURSE
PLANNED FOR FLIGHT
Flyer and Wife to Visit Capital
and Officially Will Begin
Trip From Here.
Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, July ga hitherto
unflown route from New York to Toxic
by way Of the Canadian Arctic has been
selected by Col. Charles A. Lindbergh
for the Summer air tour on which he
and Mrs. Lindbergh hope to embark In
their Lockheed-Sir plane some time
next week.
Everything is all ready now" the
colonel said. Barring accidents, I be-
lieve We will get away some time next
week. The day, however. wouldn't
presume to guess at now"
Trip to Capital.
The Lindberghs expect to fly to
Washington for a last conference with
State Department officials and to re-
ceive the flying permits from foreign
countries that they will visit on their
tour. Officially their fight to the
Orient may be designated as starting
from the Capital. Lindbergh said, but a
halt will be made at New York before
continuing northward into Canada
Although practically every portion of
the route to be taken has been covered
by eirplane. hazard and adventure will
lie before the Lindberghs after they
leave civilization and strike out along
what is practically a great circle course
for Toxic.
From New York they will fly to OF
tawa, $50 miles. The next stop will be
at Moose Factory. in the lower south
west corner of James Bay, about 480
miles north of the Canadian capital
Moose Factory found its way into the
headlines some years ago when a party
of American balloonistS landed there
after having been given up for lost.
$50 Miles to Churchill.
A jump of $50 miles along the west
ern shore of Hudson Bay will take the
flying colonel and his wife to Churchill.
in the Northwest Territories. From
Churchill the Lindberghs will turn
northwest 10 Baker Lake, some 800
miles from Churchill, and thence across
the lake dotted barren lands to Aklavik,
In the Mackenzie River delta.
The route from Baker Lake to Ak
lavik will take the flying pair close to
Victoria Land and only few hundred
miles from the magnetic North Pole, in
Boothia Peninsula An alternate route
for this stage of the journey would
take their plane over Great Bear Lake
instead of along the edge Of Beaufort
Sea. The distance between Baker Lake
and Aklavik via Great Bear Is about
LOO miles
From Aklavik, chief trading center
Of the Mackenzie delta, the Lindberghs
intend to fly $50 miles to Point Barrow,
and thence another $50 miles to Nome.
following the Northern Alaska coast.
From Point Barrow the line of flight
passes Down across the Boring Sea into
Kamchatka Peninsula, thence to Japan
by way of the Kuril Islands.
Sea Jump Hazardous.
The most dangerous part Of the
fight, probably, is the 900-mile jump
from Nome across the foggy Boring
Sea to KaraginSk, Siberia. From Kar-
aginsk the Lindberghs will follow the
eastern coast of the Kamchatka Pen
insula $40 miles to Petropaviosk, thence
by way of the Kuril Islands to Ne
muro, where they will land for the first
time in japanese waters.
From Petropaviosk to Nemuro is
about $50 miles, and from Nemuro, the
northernmost Of the Oriental group,
the distance to Toxic is approximately
another 470 miles. The entire route
from New York to Toxic is about $500
miles, almost half the distance flown
by Wiley Post and Harold Gatty in
their trip around the world.
(Copyright, 1917