The first flight over the South Pole was made on November 28, 1929, by American Commander Richard Byrd and Bernt Balchen, in a thre engined Ford monoplane named “Floyd Bennett”, after Byrd’s former pilot.
Byrd and Balchen took off from a camp at the Bay of Whaes, 400 miles from the pole.
Bryd’s flight marked the end of the era of pioneer flying. All the continents had been spanned by air, all the oceans crossed.
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