CHAPTER XIX 



PREPARING FOR THE ROCKFORD FLYERS 



the spring of 1928 Bert R. J. Has- 

 sell, a very experienced Swedish- 

 American aviator, had laid his plans 

 to fly from his home at Rockford, 

 Illinois, to Stockholm in a single 

 hop of 4200 miles. Quite naturally he was unable 

 to find backers for so hazardous a propbsition. 

 With the late William Naylor, Chief Engineer of 

 the Stinson Aircraft Company of Plymouth, 

 Michigan, he came to Ann Arbor to consult with 

 me concerning the flight. I advised that he break 

 his flight into two and make a way station at 

 Mount Evans, pointing out to him the advantage 

 of practical freedom from fog within the Holstens- 

 borg hinterland, and also describing the way in 

 which the Greenland glacial anticyclone could be 

 made to serve an aviator while crossing Greenland. 



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