Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Fokker Super Universal Virginia piloted by Richard Evelyn Byrd was the first aircraft to land on the mainland of Antarctica [3] during Byrd's first Antarctic expedition, 1928–1930, when he was first to fly over the South Pole on November 29, 1929. Byrd used Ford Trimotors and other aircraft for aerial surveys and reconnaissance during his ...
The Arctic Aircraft Company was founded in Anchorage, Alaska by Bill Diehl in 1975 to produce an updated version of the Interstate Cadet light aircraft as the Arctic Tern. In 1985 , the company closed down, and rights to the aircraft went to the Interstate Aircraft Company .
The Arctic Aircraft Arctic Tern (named after the bird) is a bush plane that was produced in small numbers in Alaska in the 1970s and 1980s. It is a strengthened and modernised version of the Interstate Cadet of the 1940s. It is a high-wing braced monoplane with fixed tailwheel undercarriage. It has two seats in tandem, with the rear seat ...
AccuWeather forecasters warn that the waves of Arctic air will continue to expand southward across the nation, yielding notably cooler conditions as far south as the Southeast coast throughout ...
This category is for aircraft designed, manufactured or marketed by Arctic Aircraft. Pages in category "Arctic Aircraft aircraft" This category contains only the following page.
Parts of all states in the Lower 48 woke up to subfreezing temperatures Tuesday due to a weather pattern that will keep arctic air in place across the eastern half of the country at least until ...
Starting this weekend, millions of Americans across more than a dozens states are expected to feel the coldest and most persistent blast of Arctic air reaching the Central, Southern and Eastern ...
From 29 December 1969 the aircraft with its new registration CF-PAB belonged to the fleet of International Jetair Ltd. and from March 1970 to Panarctic Oils. [2] The aircraft was equipped with four Allison 501-D13 turboprop engines. [1] Panarctic Oils was a company founded in 1966 to explore for oil deposits in the Canadian Arctic Circle.