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9 photos tagged ellsworthtransantarcticflight, from 2 members of Flickr Commons.

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Related tags

Tags that often appear on the same photos:

• polarstar
• nr12269
• nx12269
• x12269
• northrop
• gamma
• gamma2b
• aviation
• aircraft
• airplane
• northropgamma
• northropgammamodel2b
• northropgamma2b
• gammamodel2b
• lincolnellsworth
• explorer
• polarexplorer
• ellsworth
• hmaswyattearp
• royalaustraliannavy
• antarctica
• 1930s
• exploration
• ice

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• SDASM Archives 7 photos
• Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons 2 photos

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Bilstein_00333 Northrop Gamma 2B NR12269 on Lake Elsinore 1934

from SDASM Archives

• Kerry Taylor said:

  Info from aerialvisuals.ca Northrop Gamma 2B NR12269 MSN 2 By 1934 To Lincoln Ellsworth Expedition with c/r NR12269. Operated with markings: Polar Star. Used by explorer Lincoln Ellsworth and pilot Herbert Hollick-Kenyon for Antarctic exploration, culminating in a trans-Antarctic flight from Dundee Island to the Little America station, with five stops, in November-December 1935. They reportedly attempted to reach the South Pole, but made a forced landing only 25 miles short of the pole. The aircraft was recovered a year later and donated to the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC, where it is on display, and is the only Gamma in existence today.

CF_02 004

from SDASM Archives

• Greg Bishop said:

  royalaviationmuseum.com/article-1935-antarctic-flight/