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1 2A Iowa City Press-Citizen NATION THURSDAY, May 9, 1996 Report: Byrd flew short of goal Woodbum Electronics Diaiy shows aviator missed North Pole by 1 50 miles A MITSUBISHI CS-27205 27" Television with Black tint Black-Matrix CRT (Screen) and AudioVideo memory ft provides custom picture I and sound settings for only Technics SA-GX190 Stereo Receiver 100vx2A.V. 100 watt per channel A.V. remote control, 30 station AMFM presets. 4 Audio 1 Video 1 inputs, r-or uniy 1 79.95 around was pretty sudden. And it doesn't feel like the words of someone who has just reached a great goal." Byrd, who was paraded in New York and received medals from President Coolidge, reported in later statements, "At 9:02 a.m.

our calculations showed us to be at the pole!" Yet Rawlins notes that in the diary, 9:15 a.m. was recorded as the time when Byrd was a few miles short of the North Pole. And in a report to the Navy three days after the flight, Byrd said 9:15 was the time of departure from the pole, after 13 minutes of circling it. The university was to officially release the findings today to coincide with the flight's 70th anniversary. The school also plans to publish a facsimile of the diary so it is available for further research, Goerler said.

communication difficult during the May 9, 1926, flight, Byrd and pilot-mechanic Floyd Bennett exchanged questions and answers in the diary, and logged times and chart readings. ''The exciting thing is the diary ts you practically right there in the plane," said Raimund Goer-ler, the Ohio State archivist who found the diary. At one point in the diary, there is a blank where something has been erased. Rawlins determined that the erased line was a question by Byrd to Bennett. "How long were we gone before we turned around?" The reply, written below the erased question is, "8VS (hours).

"This is not the sort of question one expects from a navigator who has been keeping close track of times and distances," Rawlins said in his report to Ohio State. "It also sounds like the turn COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) Richard Byrd, who was hailed as national hero as the first person to fly over the North Pole 70 years ago today, actually flew short of his goal and knew it at the time, say researchers of his recently discovered flight diary. Scholars say the diary, found in January among papers at Ohio State University's Byrd Polar Research Center, indicates Byrd and his pilot were concerned about an engine leak and turned around about 150 miles from the top of the world. "It's quite clear to me he exaggerated and knew it," said navigation scholar Dennis Rawlins, who was commissioned by the university to study the diary. "I would say Byrd saw virtually to the pole from the height he was at, but this diary disproves his claim that he reached the pole." Since engine noise made class 1 sz Panasonic.

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