Oskar Omdal

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Oskar Omdal
Oskar Omdal ca. 1924
BornTemplate:Birth date
Kristiansand, Norway
DiedTemplate:Death date and age
Atlantic Ocean
OccupationPilot of the Royal Norwegian Navy
Known forMysteriously disappearing during trans-Atlantic flight
Oskar Omdal (left) with Roald Amundsen, 1922

Oskar Omdal (October 11, 1895 – December 23, 1927) was a lieutenant and pilot in the Royal Norwegian Navy.[1]

Biography

He was born at Kristiansand in Vest-Agder, Norway. He attended the Technical School at Porsgrunn. He graduated from the Norwegian Naval Flight School (Marinens Flygeskole) at Horten in 1919. He was promoted to lieutenant in the Royal Norwegian Navy during 1922.[2][3]

In 1923 with Roald Amundsen he tried to fly from Wainwright, Alaska, to Spitsbergen across the North Pole, but their aircraft was damaged and they abandoned the journey. In 1925, Omdal was a mechanic on Lincoln Ellsworth and Roald Amundsen's attempted flight to the North Pole. [4][5] [6] [7]

Disappearance

Omdal took off on December 23, 1927, from Curtiss Field on Long Island, New York, with Frances Wilson Grayson, navigator Brice Goldsborough and engineer Frank Koehler headed for Harbor Grace in Newfoundland. This flight was in preparation for Grayson's planned crossing of the Atlantic Ocean to set the record for the first woman to cross. The twin-engine air-craft Dawn, an amphibious Sikorsky S-36, and its crew never arrived. No trace of the plane or the four aviators was found.[8][9]

Legacy

Oscar Omdal street in Stavanger and Oscar Omdal terrace in the Hamresanden district of Kristiansand are both named after him. [10][11]

In 1928, the Ontario Surveyor General named a number of lakes in the northwest of the province to honour aviators who had perished during 1927, mainly in attempting oceanic flights.[12][13] These include Goldsborough Lake (Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found.), Grayson Lake (Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found.) and Omdahl [sic] Lake (Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found.) which are in close proximity to each other in the Wabakimi Provincial Park.[14]

See also

References


Other sources

  • Arlov, Thor B. (2003) Svalbards historie (Trondheim: Akademisk Forlag) <templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>ISBN 82-519-1851-0
  • Hafsten, Bjørn/Arheim, Tor (2003) Marinens Flygevåpen 1912 – 1944 (Tankestreken forlag) <templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>ISBN 82-993535-1-3

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  1. ↑ Oskar Omdal.  Norsk biografisk leksikon.  Retrieved May 1, 2017 from link
  2. ↑ Oscar Omdal (1895-1927).  The Fram Museum.  Retrieved May 1, 2017 from link
  3. ↑ Marinens Flygevåpen 1912-1914 (in Norwegian) (Hafsten, Arheim)
  4. ↑ Roald Amundsens mislykkede polferd (Norgesglasset NRK)
  5. ↑ Roald Amundsen (Store norske leksikon)
  6. ↑ Roald Amundsen and the 1925 North Pole Expedition.  (12 June 2006)  Aviation History magazine.  Retrieved Nov 21, 2010 from link
  7. ↑ 1925 N24/ N25.  Norsk Polar History.  Retrieved May 1, 2017 from link
  8. ↑ Oskar Omdal (Store norske leksikon)
  9. ↑ Vanished at sea -the doomed obsession of Frances Wilson Grayson.  (December 9, 2010)  Pembroke (Ontario) Daily Observer.  Retrieved May 1, 2017 from link
  10. ↑ Oscar Omdals gate i Stavanger.  Gater i Norge.  Retrieved February 13, 2024 from link
  11. ↑ Oscar Omdals terrasse i Hamresanden.  hjemla.no.  Retrieved February 13, 2024 from link
  12. ↑ St. Raphael Signature Site Strategy.   Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources.  Retrieved 2011-07-19 from link p 14.
  13. ↑ Lua error: bad argument #1 to "get" (not a valid title).
  14. ↑ Omdahl Lake, Ontario.  Lakepedia.  Retrieved May 1, 2017 from link [permanent dead link‍]
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