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Left: A photograph of Richard Byrd in his flight jacket from the 1920s. Right: A 1929 photo of a Fokker "Super Universal" aircraft used during the Byrd Antarctic Expedition.
1926: The Dawn of Aviation Exploration – Byrd and Amundsen’s Pioneering Flights

Richard E. Byrd and Roald Amundsen's pioneering flights significantly advanced aviation exploration, including historic polar expeditions and Antarctic mapping