The Snow Cruiser-Antarctica's Abandoned Behemoth

What happened to the Antarctic Snow Cruser? In 1939 a fifty-five feet long, twenty feet wide monster, weighing 37 tonnes and designed to have a range of over 8000 miles arrived on Antarctica. Built in the late 1930s for Richard E. Byrd’s Third Antarctic Expedition, it was one of the most incredible ventures in engineering history, not just in its size and scale but also her failure as an exploratory vehicle and subsequent disappearance. In this video, I look at the background, design and disappearance of the Snow Cruser and ask what happened to this incredible vehicle (I'm afraid it's not good news). I have a Patreon now! https://www.patreon.com/calumraasay More photos, video and sources on my website: https://calumraasay.wordpress.com/portfolio/the-snow-cruiser-antarcticas-abandoned-behemoth/ Source & Reading: The best website for archives and information on the cruiser: http://www.joeld.net/snowcruiser/snowcruiser.html Best overview and details on the design and history of the cruiser: https://www.autoclassics.com/posts/reviews/1939-antarctic-snow-cruiser An Atlantic article with great photos of the cruiser: http://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2016/01/the-antarctic-snow-cruiser-updated/424851/ Interview with someone who saw it in person: https://web.archive.org/web/20070129102944/http: //antarcticsun.usap.gov/oldissues99-2000/99_1024/byrdflop.html Colour footage of the cruiser: /watch/gv5hWN8qXUKqh "With Byrd at the South Pole"- a documentary Byrd made (where I got most of the stock footage) that went on to be the first documentary to win an Oscar. - /watch/4yP81sS0vyN08 Books on the subject: Antarctica: A Biography by David Day https://www.amazon.co.uk/Antarctica-Biography-David-Day/dp/0199670552 All the information you could ever need on the attached plane: http://www.joeld.net/snowcruiser/wings_feb_1980.html For Shackeltons/Scott Shackelton: By Endurance We Conquer by Michael Smith An Unsung Hero- Tom Crean by Michael Smith Corrections: The Ferguson tractors show at roughly 4:00 are not the tractors Byrd used during his second expedition. This is placeholder footage of Fergressons used in the 1950s as I couldn't find any photos or videos of the tractors used in the previous 'little America' expedition. Upon Reviewing my footage I found there was actually a clip of the tractors in Byrd's 'Discovery' film made about the second expedition, linked to 26:24 in this video- /watch/7751=t?Mhrp-jsxmnfx1 Twitter......................►https://twitter.com/calumraasay Instagram................►http://instagram.com/calumraasay Website....................►http://calumgillies.com Facebook.................►http://facebook.com/calumgilliesart

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