Tag: North Pole
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Problems Of First Transatlantic Balloon Trip
By 1910, Walter Wellman had made three unsuccessful attempts to fly an airship to the North Pole when he set his sites instead on crossing the Atlantic. This article describes the ambitious trip and explains how Wellman and his crew will overcome the obstacles they will surely face. Spoiler alert! They didn’t make it. But…
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