
Byrd managed to lease the steamer Chantier to transport his Fokker Trimotor, Josephine Ford, from New York to Kings Bay in the Spitsbergen Islands. (Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Byrd managed to lease the steamer Chantier to transport his Fokker Trimotor, Josephine Ford, from New York to Kings Bay in the Spitsbergen Islands. (Hulton Archive/Getty Images)