THE NOME DAILY NUGGET
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AIR ROUTE ANCHORAGE TO STATES
The airplane flight of Grant Reed and party leaving
Anchorage recently for the states is of outstanding signifi
cance. It must be classed as a demonstration—and partic
ularly a winter demonstration flight as to the feasibility of
airplane servcie between this portion of Alaska and the
States.
This phase of the flight has more significance than any oth
er and deserve the careful attention of all who are in a posi
tion to help shape the future air links between Alaska and
the States—and especially as regards flights to and from this
important base.
Anchorage, by virtue of geographical location and for
favorable climatic conditions, and the vast industries that
center about her lies in a focal position as regards air traf
fic in the North. No future system of airways for the North
can ignore Anchorage as the airplane hub of that portion of
Alaska north of the Panhandle of Alaska.
It is highly essential that ample proof be given that plan
es leaving here can take the most desirable direct routes
from this place to the States. The flight of the Reed party
demonstrated the ease with which planes hopping off here
can fly by almost direct course to the natural interior trunk
route behind the great coastal mountain barriers. The hop
to Lake Kuane, near the Canadian border, and on to White;
horse occupied but a matter of a few hours. From there south
ward the course is through British Columbia behind the
sheltering mountain ranges.
Other flights have been made from Anchorage along the
coastal routes, over the Alaska archilepago, via Valdez, Cor
dova, Sitka, Juneau, Wrangell, Petersburg and Wrangell,
thence to Seattle. The coastal route is beset often by fogs
and clouds which are not so prevalent in the interior.
That it is an easy manner to hop from Anchorage to the
interior route on the first leg of that flight is fully demonst
rated. Now it is up to Anchorage to keep the id$a to the
front that she is on the direct interior as well as coastal route.
Northbound interior flights to this hub brings the plane to
the point where it is only a matter of continuance along the
interior route to go on to the heart of the Kuskokwim and
then to Nome—a major route of great importance. And from
this point planes may spread to the great areas of Bristol
Bay, the lower Kuskokwim and the Alaska Peninsula.
The practical flights such as that of the Reed party clin
ch these facts and are the proof of the coming recognition of
these routes in the day when air flights between the States
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and Anchorage will be as common as the daily local hops
out of this port to nearby settlements. The time is near at
hand when the flights over this great major route will be
more common than sailings of ships—and Anchorage will
win national as well as territorial recognition as a great
air base of Alaska.
The accident which occurred .to the plane bearing the
Reed party, resulting in damage to landing gear by reason
of striking an obstacle in the take-off, is an example of what
may be expected in pioneering flights along the route and
points emphatically to the necessity of establishment of suit
able emergency fields and airports along such future major
routes. Such improvements must come before the country
can expect expansion of air services to the maximum. They
will come, and the sooner the better.—Anchorage Times.
Girl Tells Of
First Flight To
St. Lawrence Is.
Miss Mary Mikami, honor graduate
of the Anchorage High School and
the Alaska Collgee, daughter of Mr,
and Mrs. Harry Mikami of Anchor
age who accompanied the scientfic ex
pedition toJ^St. Lawrence Island last
summer as secretary, lias written the
following interesting article, appear
ing in the Farthest North Collegian:
Story of Flight
Isolation in the truest sense of the
word is the lot of Bureau of In
dian Affairs teachers and the nurse,
the only white people among some
five hundred Eskimos, stationed on
St. Lawrence Island. From late fall
until early summer the treacherous
pack ice hems in the island, making
it inaccessible by boat. The wireless
is the only contact with the outside
world for at least nine long months.
In the past there have been re
quests for air transportation to St.
Lawrence Island, but aviators have
avoided a flight to the island on ac
count of the supposed dangers con
nected therewith. Lying in the Ber
ing Sea, this dfesolate island is dir
ectly in the path of northerly storms
which sweep down through funnel
like Bering Strait. Fickle and treach
erous is the weather in this sub-arc
tic region of shifting wind and sud
den storm. Moreover, the island is
more often than not obscured by!
heavy fog banks or curtains of rain.
For these reasons it was not until
last summer that a flight was made
to St. Lawrence Island.
At one time arrangements were
made to have an airplane bring Sep
illu, “King of St. Lawrence Island”,
a wealthy Eskimo, to Nome for med
ical attention. This proposed flight
was not made, fgr Sepillu died the
morning the plane was to leave
Nome for the island.
On July 15, 1934, a Bellanca pon
toon ship of the Northern Air Trans
port Co., chartered by the archaeo
logical expedition from the Alaska
College and piloted by Chief Pilot
Ross, .took off from Norton Sound
near Nome. "On board were four
members or half of the expedition,
Mr. Oliver, president of the com
pany, and the pilot. Although we
passed directly over the island,
heavy fog banks hid it completely
from view and we were forced to
return. Three hours afterward we
landed on Nome River at Fort Davis j
near Nome. Later. Eskimos told us
they had heard our motor through
tj>e fog although we were invisible.
Two days later we again took off
after seeing the rest of the party
leave for the island on a small trad
ing schooner. This time we took off
from Safety Lagoon at Cape Nome.
The compass bearing was set for the'
center of the island but northerly)
winds made the plane drift, causing
us to touch the island first at North-i
east Cape.
Once in the air we soon left land)
and flew quickly away from the re-)
treating hills of Seward Peninsula.
From our superior height the wind
whipped water looked like Cole
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ridge’s painted sea. Sledge Island
at the portal of Nome slipped swift
ly by. Triumphantly we passed ov
er the less fortunate trading schoon
er which was tossing below, though
it seemed to us immobile in a leaden
sea. King Island in the distance
warned us that we were approach
ing St. Lawrence.
Three jagged mountain peaks jut
ting through stifling fog gave us our
first glimpse of the island. These
were recognized by Mr. Geist as
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