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- 100 years ago today, Roald Amundsen's flying boat took off. His team chopped a runway into the ice for weeks, moving at least 500 tons of frozen material in the process.www.historynet.com Roald Amundsen and the 1925 North Pole Expedition
To the six aviators stranded on the Arctic ice, the future looked bleak but not hopeless. Engine trouble had forced their pair of Dornier-Wal flying boats to put down on the shifting ice.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roald_Amundsen#Aerial_expeditions_to_the_North_Pole
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