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Carl Benjamin "Ben" Eielson (July 20, 1897 – November 9, 1929) was an American aviator, bush pilot and explorer. Eielson Air Force Base in Alaska, Carl Ben Eielson Middle School Fargo, ND and Carl Ben Eielson Elementary School Grand Forks, ND as well as Ben Eielson Junior-Senior High School Eielson AFB, AK are named in his honor. [1] [2]
During another flight on November 9, 1929, to supply the crew and to salvage more of the valuable cargo, pilot Carl Ben Eielson and mechanic Frank Borland went missing in a storm 60 miles from Cape Schmidt [21] and were found dead after a weeks-long search operation - they had crashed.
Notable North Dakota aviators include Carl Ben Eielson, Bruce Peterson, and James Buchli. North Dakota's first aeronautical event was the flight of a Wright Model B on July 19, 1910, at the Grand Forks Air Meet flown by Wright Exhibition Team member Archibald Hoxsey. [1] Lucky Bob and a drawing of his airplane, 1911.
Alaska's first bush pilot was Carl Ben Eielson, a North Dakota farm boy of Scandinavian descent who flew during World War I. [4] After the war, he moved to Alaska as a mathematics and science teacher in Fairbanks. [4] However, he soon persuaded several citizens to help him acquire a Curtiss JN-4, flying passengers to nearby settlements. [4]
It was named for Carl Ben Eielson, an Alaska aviation pioneer who was killed, along with his mechanic Earl Borland, in the crash of their Hamilton H-45 aircraft in 1929. Eielson and Borland were attempting a rescue flight to an icebound ship in the Bering Sea when they were killed. On 1 April 1948, the Eielson Air Force Base Wing (Base ...
Carl Benjamin Eielson (1897-1929), American aviator; Jorge Eduardo Eielson (1924-2006), Peruvian poet; Various facilities named for Carl Benjamin Eielson: Eielson Air Force Base, located near Fairbanks, Alaska; Ben Eielson Junior/Senior High School, located at Eielson AFB; Carl Ben Eielson Elementary School, located in Grand Forks, North Dakota
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In December 1928, Wilkins and Eielson took off from Deception Island, one of Antarctic's most remote islands, and made the first successful airplane flight over the continent. [9] Wilkins was the first recipient of the Samuel Finley Breese Morse Medal, which was awarded to him by the American Geographical Society in 1928. [10]