Alaska Catalogue and Journal, v4402
Page 345
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Cade 1958 General Account 17 June - Left San Francisco International on United flight 759 at 1425 (15 min. late) and Arrived Seattle 1804 Pacific Standard time. Ate dinner at the airport - cost $3.10. Left Seattle via Pan Am flight 911 at 2230 (30 min. late). 18 June Arrived Fairbanks at 0450. Breakfast at the airport - cost $1.05. Left via Wien for Barrow at 0900 - arrived at 1260. On the plane I met Morrow Chance, anthropologist from Oklahoma, who is going to Baster Island to study social conditions of Eskimos in the new college there. Also saw Fred Milan briefly at the airport. Ibe introduced Chance. May already had a bush flight ar- ranged for the afternoon. At 1407 Royal Shanks, Bill Maher, and I made the same survey flight east of Barrow that May and Rosanda and I made last year. Bob Fisher was pilot. The following is the itinerary and two of my observators. See Maher's notes for plot of exact route taken. We flew at 300 to 200 feet most of the way with air speed of 80-90 miles per hour. Visibility was excellent to good except for the last 10 minutes,