Lincoln Ellsworth Antarctic expedition 1935

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Lincoln Ellsworth (May 12, 1880 – May 26, 1951) was a polar explorer from the United States. In 1935 he accompanied Amundsen on his second effort to fly over the Pole in the airship Norge, designed and piloted by the Italian engineer Umberto Nobile, in a flight from Svalbard to Alaska. During this flight the Geographic North Pole was sighted.

Ellsworth made four expeditions to Antarctica between 1933 and 1939 using as his aircraft transporter and base, a former Norwegian herring boat, that he named Wyatt Earp after his hero.

End 1935, Ellsworth discovered the Ellsworth Mountains of Antarctica when he made a trans-Antarctic flight from Dundee Island to the Ross Ice Shelf. He gave the descriptive name Sentinel Range, which was later named for the northern half of the Ellsworth Mountains. During the flight, his aircraft ran out of fuel, forcing a landing near the Little America camp established by Richard Byrd.

All these to explain the reason why Alexander Belov created the very small scenery involing the said ship. Due to the lack of a suitable Northrop Gamma flown than by Ellsworth, I use the Grandville Brothers Gee Bee A Model with skis.

Ellsworth's ship "Wyatt Earp" moored at Dundee Island




Ellsworth taking off from Dundee Island ...




... and landing at Little America base (again a scenery done by Belov)




Some words about the author: Alexander Belov, known at Avsimrus.com, is beside Bill Lyons certainly one of the most active scenery creater for Golden Wings era. Several years ago he did the "Aéropostale" and "French West and Central Africa" scenery packages as well as some other smaller addons.

Bernard

[nmlw]

You continue to bring up some very interesting historical items and related scenery displays Bernard.

[Tom/CalClassic]

I agree, a nice group of posts.

Thanks,

[jwh]

I seem to recall that back in the late 60s an old friend of ours John Bange had an Aeronca which had belonged to Ellsworth and had been used in one of his Polar expeditions. At the time it was in a dark blue colour scheme and I seem to remember some writing in white on the side of the Aeronca about Ellsworth. Somewhere I do have some old Super 8 movie footage of the aircraft which I filmed around 1968-69.

Bange had a farming property at Clifton on the Darling Downs west of Brisbane on which he had a private airstrip. He also had an ex NEI Air Force Ryan STM and I think a BA Swallow. As far as I know all three aircraft are still in existence and the airstrip is still in use today for vintage flying meets.

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Thanks for appreciating my modeste contribution, as well as for John's interesting comment. 


Bernard