Discover the first plane on Antarctica

Right on the first day of New Year 2010, Australian explorers discovered the body of the first aircraft brought to Antarctica, where it was left for nearly a century, thanks to a miraculous luck after many attempts. Search force.

For many years, Australian scientists have been searching for a short-engine, single-engine aircraft brought to Antarctica by explorer Douglas Mawson from 1911-1914. The aircraft was built eight years after the Wright brothers successfully launched the first flight with a motorized aircraft, the first aircraft made by Vickers in the UK.

Adventurer Douglas Mawson. Photo: Dailymail.

The explorer Mawson had dreamed of making the first humanity flight through the Antarctic, but his dream was shattered before the expedition set off from Australia to the earth's coldest continent at the end. 1911.

Just a few weeks before the trip, the plane crashed during a test flight in Adelaide and both wings were damaged. Since there was no time to fix it, explorer Mawson decided to disassemble the airplane wing and use the rest to make a tow truck, transporting equipment on snow.

However, the plan also failed because the engine could not operate in extreme weather conditions and he left the plane at Cape Denison when leaving Antarctica in 1913.

Since then, the Vickers have been seen in Antarctica until 1931 before being buried in ice and no one has seen the plane after the fall of ice in 1975.

Nearly a century after being abandoned, the Vickers were discovered by the "work" of an expert in ancient wood structures in the Australian expedition Mark Farrell when accidentally stumbling on rusty tubular metal pieces. of the fuselage sits next to icy rocks on the banks of Commonwealth Bay at a particularly low tide.

The Australian expedition team of 10 people from Mawson's Huts Foundation, a volunteer organization working on preserving Mawson's former work area, arrived in Antarctica in early December in a 6-week program. The organization plans to spend the first week of 2010 searching for the body of the Vickers in the snow, ending the work they started three years ago.

According to the AAP news agency, Australia's Antarctic agency will decide whether to bring the body of Vickers to Australia to conduct a special preservation or still leave Cape Denison./.