Charlton Clark(L), manager of the Antarctic Airlink Project, and Dr Jeremy Smith, Casey station leader, stand by the first Airbus A319 passenger jet to land in Antarctica on the purpose-built Wilkins glacial runway, around 70kms from the Australian Antarctic research station of Casey. Regular flights are expected to start within a week. (AFP/AAD-HO/Tom Delfatti)
2 posted on
12/12/2007 7:34:50 PM PST by
NormsRevenge
(Semper Fi ... Godspeed ... ICE’s toll-free tip hotline —1-866-DHS-2-ICE ... 9/11 .. Never FoRGeT)
To: NormsRevenge
Rotten Aussies, they are generating global warming jet exhaust gases. Soon all the penguins will have no ice to swim from!
What is wrong with these guys. No JETS should be allowed in antarctica.
Just ask Al Gorp!
3 posted on
12/12/2007 7:37:07 PM PST by
Candor7
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Baghdad_(1258))
To: NormsRevenge
25 or 30 years ago Air New Zealand tried to land a DC onto Mount Erebus.A couple of hundred people died in that one.I almost went on that flight....that’s how I know.
5 posted on
12/12/2007 7:39:50 PM PST by
Gay State Conservative
(Wanna see how bad it can get? Elect Hillary and find out.)
To: NormsRevenge
But trips on the Airbus A319 to the Wilkins Runway will be for scientists and research staff only, with no plans to open the airlink to tourists, project manager Charlton Clark told AFP.
They can fit over 100 people on that thing comfortably. Why not make some money back?
7 posted on
12/12/2007 7:43:32 PM PST by
kinoxi
To: NormsRevenge
That must be a Looooooooooooooooong runway ...
8 posted on
12/12/2007 7:43:49 PM PST by
11th_VA
To: NormsRevenge
Actually this is kind of exciting. The Aussies will have a place to run when the Chinese invade from their North in a few years.
They better ramp up their military air functions for cold weather, so they can hide their air force there for a counter attack against the ChiComs.
Ice bunkers anyone?
9 posted on
12/12/2007 7:47:19 PM PST by
Candor7
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Baghdad_(1258))
To: NormsRevenge
despite the lack of friction to grab the wheels on the ice.
There's no indication that the Airbus ever took-off. It might need miles of runway.
10 posted on
12/12/2007 7:53:06 PM PST by
Thrownatbirth
(.....Iraq Invasion fan since 1991.)
To: NormsRevenge
Those cold-hearted Aussies
13 posted on
12/12/2007 8:15:20 PM PST by
JRios1968
(Faith is not believing that God can. It is knowing that God will. - Ben Stein)
To: NormsRevenge
“In the first trial landing on Monday, the plane pulled up within 1,000 metres despite the lack of friction to grab the wheels on the ice.”
While an ice runway would have less friction than a paved one, there would still be considerable friction. Cold ice (anything below zero F) has a lot of friction. Also, from the picture, it appears that the ice surface has been scarified, which would add grip.
To: NormsRevenge
I was thinking we had another “Wrong-way Corrigan” incident here with a headline-seeking cockpit jockey.
24 posted on
12/13/2007 8:43:46 AM PST by
Old Professer
(The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, and writes again.)
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