The air-tractor sledge was a converted fixed-wing aircraft taken on the 1911–1914 Australasian Antarctic Expedition, the first plane to be taken to the...
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Australian hero's story of survival, BBC News, 27 February 2014. CDWS-1 Air tractor tail Australian Antarctic Division (2013). "Mawson's Huts Historic Site...
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expedition sailed. The plane's fuselage was adapted to form a motorised sledge or "air-tractor", but it proved to be of very limited usefulness. The expedition...
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many items of specialist equipment he was able to obtain there and 48 sledging dogs procured from Greenland. Ninnis joined the Expedition in London as...
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Francis Howard Bickerton 22 Engineer, and motor expert, in charge of air-tractor sledge Member of party that remained for second winter, 1913 Bickerton was...
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March. In December 1912, Aurora returned to Cape Denison to find that the sledging expedition of Mawson, Xavier Mertz, and Belgrave Edward Sutton Ninnis was...
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The Far Eastern Party was a sledging component of the 1911–1914 Australasian Antarctic expedition, which investigated the previously unexplored coastal...
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The Air-tractor sledge, the first aeroplane to be brought to Antarctica (in 1912) was stationed at Cape Denison, although it never took to the air on the...
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summer sledging party to explore the area to the west of the hut. This Western party would leave base on 3 December and use the air-tractor sledge—a wingless...
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Frank Bickerton (category Royal Air Force officers)
lead one of the expedition's four main sledging parties. His particular task would be to steer the air-tractor along the western coast of Commonwealth...
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now big enough to pull. As Frank Bickerton's party was to test the "air-tractor sledge", it did not require dogs; Mawson decided that his party would take...
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Francis Howard Bickerton Silver. Antarctic, 1912-14. In Charge of Air-Tractor Sledge, Australasian Antarctic Expedition 1911-1914. John Hamilton Blair...
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expedition's base in Adélie Land towards Victoria Land. After Ninnis and a sledge carrying most of the food disappeared down a crevasse, 311 miles (500 km)...
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Continuous track (redirect from Tractor crawler)
Caterpillar Tractor Company, with tanks emerging during World War I. Today, they are commonly used on a variety of vehicles, including snowmobiles, tractors, bulldozers...
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assistant to wireless operator Walter Hannam. He took part in the Eastern Sledging journey with Cecil Madigan and Archibald McLean, exploring the coast near...
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for Frank Wild's western base. In November 1912, Wild's group left on a sledging trip with Moyes remaining at the hut; the trip ended up taking nine weeks...
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Bage, Eric Webb, Herbert Murphy and John Hunter. The group travelled by sledge, departing their base camp on 10 November 1912. Murphy, Hunter and Laseron...
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used air-cooled gasoline engines mounted on the baler for power. The biggest change to this type of baler since 1940 is being powered by the tractor through...
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construction of the main hut at the main base and took part in several sledging expeditions, recording routes taken, coastlines and topography. He also...
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