POLARFLIGHT
RESEARCH GROUP
PO Box 10732 Southport, NC 28461 USA

E-mail
polarflight@att.net

TEL.
910 233-6793

FAX
775 593-7481

PRESS RELEASE ANNOUNCING SPONSORSHIP OF THE POLARFLIGHT RESEARCH GROUP BY THE BENEDICT FOUNDATION.

BENEDICT FOUNDATION TO SPONSOR NEW RESEARCH GROUP
Southport Foundation will sponsor the Polarflight Research Group

Southport, NC, April 28, 2010. At its April meeting, the Board of Directors of the Benedict Foundation voted to sponsor and underwrite the new Polarflight Research Group, a group of aero-historians and pilots with an interest in north polar aviation history. The Polarflight Research Group is to be a successor to the now-inactive PolarFlight Research Forum in which several Foundation board members had at one time been involved. Earlier, the PolarFlight Research Forum was an innovator in historic north polar aviation research and online publication. The Polarflight Research Group has already secured full access and rights to all PolarFlight Research Forum material and publications.

The Benedict Foundation's board has confirmed that the new Polarflight Research Group’s objectives are entirely consistent with the Foundation's Educational program and its emphasis on internationalism and inter-cultural communication. The board has stressed that one of Polarflight's main objectives must include international cooperation in research projects.

The Foundation board has specified August 31, 2010 as a target date for the new group to reorganize and begin re-publication of the former PolarFlight Research Forum's online publications, and to make a preliminary report of progress to the Board. The group has already completed one re-publication, “The 1931 Polar Flight of the Airship Graf Zeppelin.” You can access this article at www.polarflight.org

For more information on the Benedict Foundation, please consult the Foundation's website at www.benedictfoundation.org If you are interested in taking part in the Polarflight Research Group's activities you can call them at 910 233-6793 or e-mail at polarflight@att.net

POLARFLIGHT RESEARCH GROUP MISSION AND VALUES

MISSION. The Mission of the Polarflight Research Group includes the following objectives:

(a) To compile and catalogue, review, and revise where needed, earlier online publications of the former PolarFlight Research Forum to which we have been granted full access and rights, and to republish this material in updated formats with the intention of making the findings more widely distributed and more readily accessible;

(b) to encourage, facilitate and support further research and publication on the subject of the aerial exploration of the north polar regions; and

(c) to establish and maintain collaborative efforts with other organizations and individuals worldwide that are also involved in north polar aviation research and distribution.

VALUES. Among the values we hold are the following:

• Stewardship: the wise and responsible use of all resources entrusted to us.

• Upholding our commitment to presenting accurate and factual information without prejudice or preconceived points-of-view.

• Encouraging and supporting original and innovative approaches to new research into subjects pertaining to the aerial exploration of the north polar regions.

• Rewarding excellence in research and publication.

• Whenever possible, establishing and maintaining international collaborative efforts with other organizations and individuals.