May 09, 2020

RotD: 9th May - The first flight to the North Pole... or was it? Richard Evelyn Byrd's controversial 1926 flight in a Fokker monoplane from Spitsbergen to the Pole (or at least NEAR it!)

8 minutes

Ben's gone a bit off-brief and is serving up just a singular record from this day in history: Richard Byrd's disputed 1926 flight to the North Pole. Did he make it? Or just make it up? Ben recounts that fateful expedition...

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By Craig Glenday, Editor-in-Chief at Guinness World Records

May 09, 2020

RotD: 9th May - The first flight to the North Pole... or was it? Richard Evelyn Byrd's controversial 1926 flight in a Fokker monoplane from Spitsbergen to the Pole (or at least NEAR it!)

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RotD: 9th May - The first flight to the North Pole... or was it? Richard Evelyn Byrd's controversial 1926 flight in a Fokker monoplane from Spitsbergen to the Pole (or at least NEAR it!)

RotD: 9th May - The first flight to the North Pole... or was it? Richard Evelyn Byrd's controversial 1926 flight in a Fokker monoplane from Spitsbergen to the Pole (or at least NEAR it!)