In 1929, Richard Byrd became the first pilot to fly an airplane over the South Pole. With fewer restrictions and capabilities ...

When Richard E. Byrd contemplated the vast unexplored regions of the South Pole and the Antarctic, a land thought only to be bleak, barren, and forbidding to most, he saw a place of promise.

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Operating out of his base, Little America, on the Bay of Whales, Richard E. Byrd, along with three others, completes a 1600-mile flight over the South Pole. Naturalist and explorer William Beebe ...

Balchen kept the revelation to himself, knowing that alienating Richard Byrd could only harm his career. When Byrd chose Balchen to be his pilot in his flight over the South Pole, Balchen was ...

In 1929, Richard Byrd became the first person to fly over the South Pole. After that, flights over Antarctica became more common. But things changed when Air New Zealand Flight 901 crashed while ...