Air-tractor sledge
The air-tractor sledge was a converted fixed-wing aircraft taken on the 1911–1914 Australasian Antarctic Expedition. Expedition leader Douglas Mawson had planned to use the Vickers R. E. P. Type Monoplane as a reconnaissance and search and rescue tool. The aircraft crashed heavily during a test flight in Adelaide, only two months before Mawson’s scheduled departure date. It is hoped that...
