Richard Byrd

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The Mystery of Admiral Richard E. Byrd’s Giant Antarctic Snow Cruiser

Imagine an enormous 45,000-pound vehicle (length 17.0 meters – width 6.06 meters) with giant tires of 1,900 pounds each (height wheels retracted 3.7 meters – height wheels extended 4.9 meters) and powered by two 200-hp diesel engines. On top of that, it carries a Navy pursuit plane and it drives over the South Pole’s icy wastelands. That is exactly what…