TRANSPORT: Captain Hubert Wilkins and Carl Eielson depart on first leg of Alaska to Norway...(1928)

GAUMONT GRAPHIC NEWSREEL (REUTERS) To license this film, visit Captain Hubert Wilkins and Carl Eielson fly from Point Barrow Alaska to Norwegian island of Spitzbergen in April and May of 1928 in a tiny Lockheed Vega monoplane in a flying time of 20 hours and 20 minutes across a distance of 2,500 miles, becoming the first aviators to fly from the New world to the Old. Full Description: NO SLATE INFORMATION (Possibly Point Barrow ,Alaska, USA ) April 1928 Captain Hubert Wilkins, arctic explorer with Lockheed Vega plane (/ checking plane before take off CAPTION - PILOT CARL EIELSON RECEIVES FLAG FROM THE AMERICAN LEGION AS A GOOD LUCK Members of the American legion presenting flag to Carl Eielson / close of Eielson (wearing hat inscribed with “alaska“) Plane flying over Alaska/ ice Background: Captain Hubert Wilkins and Carl Eielson fly from Point Barrow Alaska to Norwegian island of Spitzbergen in April and May of 1928 in