PREPARING FOR THE ROCKFORD FLYERS 



jor Fredericks, his backer, I had through the 

 Director for Greenland, ordered four hundred gal- 

 lons of aviation gasoline and the necessary amount 

 of mobiloil with instructions to have this go in to 

 Holstensborg by an earlier steamer than the one 

 by which our Expedition sailed. Before this gaso- 

 line could be forwarded to Camp Lloyd a leak 

 had occurred in the fuel tank at the Godhavn radio 

 plant and this supply was at once commandeered, 

 since the station would have been put out of com- 

 mission without it. The Director for Greenland 

 was, however, able to send in a new supply and 

 so change the schedule of one of the ships as to 

 deliver this later supply at Holstensborg in time. 

 Under instructions this gasoline had already been 

 taken in to Camp Lloyd on one of our chartered 

 voyages of the Walrus, so that it was already 

 stored above tide near Camp Lloyd at the time the 

 Third Expedition arrived. 



We had been so much delayed by the postpone- 

 ment of three weeks in the sailing of the Disko 

 from Copenliagen, that there was now no time 

 to lose in fixing upon a landing field. The very 

 day after we reached Camp Lloyd, I set out with 

 Etes and Bangsted to reconnoiter the possible 

 landing places for planes in the vicinity. The 

 great sand flat above the fjord might have served 



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