Original sentence: Bad weather and low visibility made landing impossible, despite repeated attempts.Balchen based this assertion on calculations he made from Byrd's own speed/navigational data.Byrd, had been unsuccessful in his own attempt to fly by airplane to the Pole and back a few days earlier.Byrd, in 1927.Flying the first (experimental) USPS mail transport 'America' across the Atlantic, with Richard E.Later, in his 1958 autobiography, Balchen maintained that Amundsen's competitor, Richard E.When the plane run out of fuel, Balchen landed the wheeled airplane in the sea just off the coast of France, without injuries to the crew
Edited sentence: (Balchen never brought the North Pole fraud up in public before his autobiography was published in 1958, upon which the Byrd family promptly had the pertinent part of the book censored.(† Ever since the days of the expedition, The Byrds sabotaged any attempt by Balchen and others to make known these findings, which they stated were groundless allegations.Air Force.Byrd intimidated Balchen on several occasions, and stopped his promotion to General of the U.Byrd, landing the wheeled airplane in the sea, without injuries to the crew, just offshore the coast of France, due to bad weather and low visibility making the plane run out of fuel after repeated landing attempts.Byrd, never did fly by airplane to the Pole and back a few days earlier.Flying the first (experimental) USPS mail transport 'America' across the Atlantic, in 1927 with Richard E.Later Balchen determined that Amundsen's competitor, Richard E.† (Balchen's computations were based on Byrd's own speed/navigational data)