Tagged: North Pole

Airship Norge made first Transpolar Flight in 1926

    The airship Norge at Teller,Alaska in 1926. The drawing is based on a photograph  in the Kay Kennedy AviationPhotograph Collection at the UAF Archives. Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen capped his illustrious career...

Fordson "Sno-Motor" used on Detroit Arctic Expedition, now at Fountainhead Antique Auto Museum

Fountainhead Antique Auto Museum’s Fordson snow tractor and the Detroit-Arctic Expedition

Fordson snow tractor outside the Fountainhead Antique Auto Museum in Fairbanks The odd-looking contraption in the drawing is a Fordson “Snow Motor,” also called a snow tractor. It is basically a Fordson tractor (built...