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Airline Navigation in Polar Areas*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 January 2010

E. S. Pedersen
Affiliation:
(Scandinavian Airline System)

Extract

In 1952 the first transpolar flight by a commercial aircraft was carried out. During the six years that have since passed, S.A.S. aircraft have made 1635 flights across the arctic region representing approximately 26,000 flying hours. Our experience in polar navigation has been built up first on a large number of charter flights, then on regular flights on the sub-polar route to Los Angeles, and finally on regular flights across the Arctic Ocean to Japan.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Royal Institute of Navigation 1958

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REFERENCE

1Pederson, E. S. (1955). The S.A.S. transarctic flights. This Journal, 8, 138.Google Scholar