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Celebrated bush pilot Carl Ben Eielson assisted Australian explorer George Wilkins on his attempts to fly to the uncharted Arctic. Eielsen (right) and Wilkins stand with a Lockheed Vega and supply boxes during the 1928 Detroit News Arctic Expedition. (University of Alaska, Fairbanks)