Huge Flying-Boat
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Archbold Expedition to Dutch New Guinea
THE young millionaire explorer and scientist, Dr. Richard Archbold, in a huge flying-boat ; the Guba 11., left San Diego, U.S.A., on June 3, to fly to
Northern New Guinea, via Honolulu and Midway Is.
The expedition will collect flora and fauna for the American Museum of Natural History. ITs base will be Hollan dia, on the northern coast of Dutch New Guinea, near the border of the Manda ted Territory. Exploratory and scienti fic work will occupy two years.
Dr. Archbold’s £62,500 “flying labora tory” will carry the following crew:— Russell Rogers, pilot; Lewis Yancey, na vigator; Gerald Brown, engineer; Ste phen Barrinka, assistant-engineer; and Rav Booth, wireless operator.
It is expected that the great flying boat will make a number of visits to New Guinea ports, to Port Moresby and to Australia, and thus maintain commu nication between the base and civilisa tion.
Dr. Archbold brought a similar expe dition to Papua in 1936, but in July his seaplane was overturned in Port Mores by Harbour and sank. He got ready to return in 1937, but his new giant flying boat was urgently asked for by the Sov iet Government, to enable a search (since prosecuted vainly) to be made in the Arctic for the lost Russian airman Lev anevsky. Dr. Archbold thereupon built a second flying-boat.
Mr. William Gibson, accountant of the B.N.G. Trading Co. Ltd., Papua, arriv ed in Brisbane, Queensland, at the end of May by the “Macdhui” to be mar ried to Miss E. Robertson, formerly Matron of the European Hospital at Samarai.
Rt. Rev. L. S. Kempthorne, Bishop of Polynesia, returned to Suva from New Zealand by the “Aorangi” late in May.
An unconventional snapshot of Dr. Archbold, taken when he was at work in the jungle in Papua in 1936.