If the expedition had failed, which it might well have done with all hope centered in just one plane, I should still be trying to pay back my obligations.
"Skyward: Man's Mastery of the Air as Shown by the Brilliant Flights of America's Leading Air Explorer. His Life, His Thrilling Adventures, His North Pole and Trans-Atlantic Flights, Together with His Plans for Conquering the Antarctic by Air". Book by Richard E. Byrd and William A. Moffett, 1928.
