Posted on 03/02/2021 1:07:22 PM PST by DUMBGRUNT
It was yesterday, on March 2nd, that the Norwegian Polar Institute posted a video of the 767’s short time in Antarctica. Embedded below, the minute-long video shows beautiful drone footage of the aircraft on the ice runway. The aerial scene is then followed by a few seconds of timelapse video of passengers getting off the plane, walking down the airstairs. Finally, we can see the 767 take off from the ice runway, surrounded by not much more than ice, snow, and mountains.
... Its next flight is scheduled for tomorrow to a destination that is a little less exciting: Boston Logan International Airport.
(Excerpt) Read more at simpleflying.com ...
“If there is sufficient amount of flat surface, an airplane has decent chance of landing and taking off from such a surface.”
A sufficient amount of surface is need for any surface for there to be sufficient chance of landing or taking off...successfully. Snow does not change that equation. There must always be a sufficient amount not matter the surface.
And it doesn’t have to be flat.
I knew I would get a response. This is good. It shows we have our thinking caps on.
its summer in the southern Hemisphere
Iceland’s fleet used to be all 757s, but the plane in the article is definitely a 767 for no other reason that a 757 does not have the range required for the route that was flown. It may be that they have some 767s for charter flights.
Good thing that it was not Emirates. Their plane would have melted.
I’m so stunned I’m going to bed now. Cannot take anymore stunning.
—”I’m so stunned I’m going to bed now. Cannot take anymore stunning.”
I do hope it does not prevent getting a good night’s sleep?
I want to see a cross-wind landing...
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