Erasures & alterations in his 1926 diary have thrown doubt on his claim to be first to fly over the North Pole
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Who was the first to fly a plane over the North Pole? | Byrd Polar and ...  Byrd submitted his navigational records to the U.S. Navy and a committee of the National Geographic Society, who verified his claim. ... from Spitzbergen, Norway to the North Pole and return in the sixteen hours Byrd's flight took. ... The diary also contains eye-legible erasures of navigational calculations and the note How...
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jeopardy/2843_Qs.txt at master  jedoublen/jeopardy  GitHub  THE DIARY OF | Erasures & alterations in his 1926 diary have thrown doubt on his claim to be first to fly over the North Pole | Richard Byrd. right: Kevin. Wrong:.
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Peary Notes Said to Imply He Failed to Reach Pole - NYTimes.com  Oct 13, 1988 ... ... his claim in 1909 that he was the first person to reach the North Pole, according to ... blank diary pages raised serious doubts about Peary's claim to have achieved the Pole. ... Pole would then be Roald Amundsen, who flew over it in 1926. ... who landed there in a United States Air Force Plane in 1952.
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Wiki Byrd - Admiral Byrd Diary  They are too stupid to understand that not all factual events have been recorded in ... Byrds 1926 North Pole flight, and controversy. On 9 May 1926, Byrd and pilot Floyd Bennett attempted a flight over the North Pole in a ... cast doubt on Byrd's claim on the basis of his extensive personal knowledge of the airplane's speed.
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DIO vol. 10 - DIO, The International Journal of Scientific History  Dec 16, 2003 ... ery of data exploding Richard Byrd's 1926 North Pole fraud. ... Long-Secreted Actual 1926 Sextant Data (In-Flight Diary) ... How Far North Did the Airplane Get? .... claims to the N.Pole were fakes, thus, Amundsen was first there. ...... Byrd going a total of over 2000 mi in his 15h1/2, which whisks his 85 mph...
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Byrd flies over the North Pole? - May 09, 1926 - HISTORY.com  It would have been the first time an aircraft flew over the top of the world. ... he and Bennett may have turned back 150 miles short of the pole because of an oil leak. ... receive the credit for their airship flight over the North Pole on May 12, 1926, .... was Andrew Cunanan, a 27-year-old man already wanted for three murders.
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Charles Lindbergh & the First Solo Transatlantic Flight - Space.com  Jul 20, 2012 ... Charles Lindbergh & the First Solo Transatlantic Flight | The Greatest Moments in Flight ... in New York, many doubted it would successfully cross the Atlantic Ocean. ... In 1919, Raymond Orteig, a hotel owner in New York City, offered a prize of $25,000 to the first pilot to fly nonstop from New York to Paris.
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May 21, 1927 | Charles Lindbergh Flies Solo Across the Atlantic ...  May 21, 2012 ... May 21, 1927 | Charles Lindbergh Flies Solo Across the Atlantic ... for the first pilot to fly nonstop from New York to Paris, or Paris to New York.
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The UnMuseum - Flight of the Norge - Part I  The Norge in the air over King's Bay, Norway. ... In May of 1926 a group of sixteen fearless adventurers boarded a small dirigible to fly over the North Pole. ... They made it as far as 87 44' north, within 120 miles of the pole. ... Amundsen, Ellsworth and Nobile were anxious to get their expedition in the air first, but it was not to...
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The American Experience | Alone on the Ice | Lincoln Ellsworth - PBS  Lincoln Ellsworth: Pioneering Arctic Aviation Lincoln Ellsworth ... An expert aviator, Ellsworth teamed up with Norwegian Roald Amundsen in an unsuccessful 1925 attempt to fly over the North Pole. ... In 1935, at age 55, Ellsworth became the first man to have flown over both poles when he flew across the entire continent of...
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Scott of the Antarctic: the lies that doomed his race to the pole | UK ...  Sep 24, 2011 ... He halted and discovered the tip of a tent. ... Scott in his naval uniform and Roald Amundsen. ... in 1909, two rival US explorers  Robert Peary and Frederick Cook ... "If Peary and Cook had not been believed, then Amundsen would not ... Pole any quicker, but his party's return  having been first to the pole...
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May 21, 1927 | Charles Lindbergh Flies Solo Across the Atlantic ...  May 21, 2012 ... On May 21, 1927, the aviator Charles A. Lindbergh landed his Spirit of St. Louis near Paris, completing the first solo airplane flight across the Atlantic Ocean. ... the first pilot to fly nonstop from New York to Paris, or Paris to New York. ... was noted: A fame enveloped the 25-year-old American that was to last...
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Who Discovered the North Pole? | History | Smithsonian  On September 7, 1909, readers of the New York Times awakened to a .... Peary, for his part, made another attempt to reach the North Pole in 1905-06, his sixth .... who understood the news value of Cook's claim, suggested he get word of it out. ... On board, Peary was returning from his own polar expedition, although up to...
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J! Archive - Show #509, aired 1986-11-20  At this man's inaugural, Mathew Brady took the first photo of a president being sworn in ... Perhaps his name inspired him to be the 1st to fly over the North Pole...
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Richard E. Byrd and Floyd Bennett: First to Fly over the North Pole ...  In May of 1926, Spitsbergen's barren, frozen landscape erupted with activity as two ... Famed Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen, teaming with American .... to try again,' Byrd wrote later (Floyd Bennett claimed they removed 1,000 pounds). ... 25 minutes in the air, at 9:02 a.m., Josephine Ford passed over the North Pole.
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Richard E. Byrd and Floyd Bennett: First to Fly over the North Pole ...  Richard E. Byrd and Floyd Bennett: First to Fly over the North Pole ... Exploring the Arctic by air was not exactly a new idea in 1926. ... Loaded with 52 men, two planes, survival gear, six-months' worth of rations and ... On the morning of May 4, the Fokker Trimotor, with Navy aviation pilot-mechanic Floyd Bennett at the...
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Scott vs. Amundsen: Sunday, 17 December 1911  Dec 17, 2011 ... At the Pole mark, Amundsen raised the reserve tent made by Rnne ... in establishing the position of the Geographic South Pole -- with I hope ... he gets here now, to arrive and see the tent with the Norwegian flag ... [2] R.F. Scott, diary, 17 December 1911, quoted in Scott's Last Expedition : the Journals, v.1.
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Peary's expedition reaches North Pole? - Apr 06, 1909 - HISTORY ...  On April 6, 1909, American explorer Robert Peary accomplishes a long elusive dream, when he, assistant Matthew Henson, and four Eskimos reach ... Peary, a U.S. Navy civil engineer, made his first trip to the interior of Greenland in 1886. ... of ice to reach what they calculated as latitude 90 degrees north on April 6, 1909.
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1912 Book Reviews of A Negro Explorer at The North Pole  1912 Book Reviews of A Negro Explorer at The North Pole - The New York Times ... "Admiral Peary's assistant in the discovery of the North Pole has shown that he can write entertainingly as well as work efficiently upon arctic expeditions. ... "Many books have been written to commemorate a smaller event than a visit to the...
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Amundsen, Roald - Cosmeo  14, 1911, he reached the South Pole, the first person known to do so. ... Amundsen's books include North West Passage (1908), The South Pole (1912), The...
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To the Pole - The New York Times  The Diary and Notebook of Richard E. Byrd, 1925-1927 ... the Shenandoah, would fly from Point Barrow in Alaska, pass over the North Pole, ... who had accompanied Robert Peary in 1909, lobbied for the attempt. ... Amundsen allied himself with Commander Lincoln Ellsworth, the son of an .... things seem to happen to me.