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Lesueur
Now, Colonel, as the first man to fly over both poles, can you tell us, do you still have any unsatisfied ambitions?
Balchen
Well, that's rather a difficult question to answer, but one of my greatest satisfactions for my interests in the Arctic and the defense of our continent was to see, when it was decided Thule would be built. Yes I have some unsatisfied (illegible text) ends: to see the completion of a network of a defense chain across the Arctic that will in the future sometime be the airways across the polar regions.