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The ZR3 is almost ready for its flight from Friedrichshafen, South Germany, to Lakehurst, N. J. The directors of the Zeppelin company foresee success and little danger. But they predict failure for Amundsen’s plan of airplane flight from Spitzbergen, Norway, to Point Barrow, Alaska. “Many flights will be necessary to lay in supplies at the Pole. One forced landing on barren and broken ice fields may mean death, without the faintest hope of succor for the lightly provisioned aviators.”
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