Our polar flight

Chapter 58: Transcriber’s Notes

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About This Book

The account chronicles an early attempt to explore the high Arctic by airplane, combining expedition narrative, technical reports, navigational analysis, meteorological study, and personal diary entries. It follows preparation and departure from base, assembly and handling of aircraft on sea ice, aerial surveys and landings on the polar pack, and the teams’ efforts to cope with ice, weather, and mechanical limits. Distinct sections present different crew perspectives on the flights, a navigator’s methods and instruments, a close log of events during a critical period ashore and aloft, and scientific observations and maps illustrated by photographs made on the journey.

Transcriber’s Notes

Punctuation, hyphenation, and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in the original book; otherwise they were not changed.

Simple typographical errors were corrected; unbalanced quotation marks were remedied when the change was obvious, and otherwise left unbalanced.

Illustrations in this eBook have been positioned between paragraphs and outside quotations. In versions of this eBook that support hyperlinks, the page references in the List of Illustrations lead to the corresponding illustrations.

The table on page 175 was printed in a way that was difficult to understand, so its appearance in this eBook may be incorrect.

Page 249: “we reached the N 24” was printed that way, but the narrative suggests that it should be “N 25”.