Remains of historic British monoplane discovered in Antarctica
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For nearly a century one of Britain’s earliest aircraft had lain abandoned in the Antarctic ice-scape.
The monoplane — the first aircraft off the Vickers factory production line in 1911, eight years after the first flight by the Wright brothers — was ditched by the Antarctic explorer Sir Douglas Mawson in 1914 and last seen in 1975 almost completely buried in ice.
On New Year’s Day record low tides caused by a blue moon led to its rediscovery.
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