General Information

Serial #

N/A

Part Number

1

Total Parts

1

AKA

N/A

Patents

N/A

General Description

PAPER

Dimensions

Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.

Length

35.7 cm

Width

28.0 cm

Height

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Thickness

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Weight

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Diameter

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Volume

N/A

Lexicon

Group

Aviation

Category

Commemorative

Sub-Category

N/A

Manufacturer

AKA

Corning

Country

Unknown

State/Province

Unknown

City

Unknown

Context

Country

United States of America

State/Province

Unknown

Period

Unknown

Canada

Unknown

Function

DISPLAY

Technical

Unknown

Area Notes

Unknown

Details

Markings

lettering printed below image reads: "ANOTHER FIRST FOR THE FLYING ADMIRAL/From a painting in the LEACH CORPORATION HERITAGE OF THE AIR COLLECTION/C 1968 LEACH CORPORATION LITHO IN U.S.A."; continued on back: "Somewhere over an unknown glacier pass leading to the Polar Plateau. 9500', nearing abso-/lute ceiling. Suddenly, the ailerons of the powerful Ford Tri-motor failed to have any effect/and the wheel turned loosely in the hands of BerntBalchen, the pilot. "It's drop 200 pounds/or go back." he shouted. The navigator, Admiral Richard E. Byrd, made a critical decision./He dropped food bags insteal of fuel and insured the success of the first flight over the South/ Pole and in doing so completed the longest aerial photographic strip chart map ever made to/ that date. For the man who had flown over the North Pole and had made a trans-Atlantic/ flight, it was yet another first. The date: November 28-29, 1929."

Missing

N/A

Finish

COLOUR IMAGE

Decoration

IMAGE OF ADMIRAL RICHARD BYRD'S FIRST FLIGHT OVER SOUTH POLE IN FORD TRI-MOTOR MON OPLANE IN 1929