In 1935 Lincoln Ellsworth flew over this continent & claimed parts of it for the U.S.
... result of a combination of a good airplane, flown by a man with excellent pilot 
.... Balchen and Ellsworth took the plane on a thirty-minute test flight over Roald... [DOC] [TLE] Lincoln Ellsworth | American explorer | Britannica.com [PAR] Lincoln Ellsworth, original name William Linn Ellsworth (born May 12, 1880, 
Chicago, ... who led the first trans-Arctic (1926) and trans-Antarctic (1935) air 
crossings.