NASA image of Antartica. A US Air Force plane left New Zealand for Antarctica early Friday on a key mission that could pave the way for year-round flights to the bottom of the world. (AFP/NASA/USGS/fILE) Posted on 09/12/2008 5:28:41 AM PDT by decimon
NASA image of Antartica. A US Air Force plane left New Zealand for Antarctica early Friday on a key mission that could pave the way for year-round flights to the bottom of the world. (AFP/NASA/USGS/fILE)
WELLINGTON (AFP) - A US Air Force plane left New Zealand for Antarctica early Friday on a key mission that could pave the way for year-round flights to the bottom of the world.
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"At the moment we make that last trip in February and then don't come back until August. If we can go in and out a couple of times a month, we can go and get people out or drop more people off," McGann said.
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Frost flight ping.
Just so they dont try it with any AIRBUUST Flying Junk:-)
Or any commercial plane. A high-wing military plane sound right but a C-17 is a durned big plane. But then, it's the USAF so they must know what they are doing, eh?
When I was in Christchurch, New Zealand, I had the pleasure of visiting the Antarctic Museum bu the airport. Pretty neat place especially the exhibits and even the penguins.
The Air Force's been doing it for years with C-130s, C-141s and now C-17s.
OK, now I'm impressed.
FRED on the ice? Color ME impressed!
Over the winter months? Not in those pics cuz there the sun do shine.
True. But I don’t think you want to risk landing in McMurdo in the middle of the Antarctic winter. The cold would be hell on the hydraulics.
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