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1951
1951 - 1537.PDF
i68 FLIGHT -*mi - •**, In the photographs below one senses the companionship offered by another aircraft when flying over the bleak, lonely Arctic wastes. Par- ticularly uninviting are the mountains, sea and glaciers, said to be near an island called Hold with Hope, depicted in the central view. On the right, Aries III and members of her crew are silhouetted against an 11.30 p.m. sun. A SERIES of important naviga-tional training flights was maderecently by aircraft from the Royal Air Force Flying College, Manby. Aries III and four other Lincolns, with crews comprising instructors and stu-r dents from the college, flew first to Keflavik airfield, in Iceland, from where, as reported last week, Aries III made a flight over the North Pole to Alaska, a distance of 3,553 miles. The other Lincolns made shorter flights into the Arctic Circle. The upper series of photographs show, left to right, one of the Lincolns over typical, inhospitable Arctic terrain, Aries III and three members of the crew taken by the light of the midnight sun, and a striking portrait of a Lin- coln's Rolls-Royce Merlins, upon the reliability of which so much depended. Below is another pleasing in-the-air picture which seems to capture the atmosphere of such flights, and also the concentration of the captain. Crews fi
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