After reading Bob Lichty’s excellent story on the Poulter-designed Snow Cruiser built for Admiral Byrd’s third Antarctic expedition in this past weekend’s SIA Flashback, I went traipsing through the Internets to see if anybody had found the Snow Cruiser in the quarter century since the SIA article. Other than plenty of speculation regarding the fate […]

Sure, we’ve all seen photos of Thomas C. Poulter’s Snow Cruiser floating around the Internet, but now here’s the whole story on the giant (and ultimately underwhelming) machine built to explore Antarctica on Admiral Byrd’s thir…