[Viking2002]

Forty-seven United States Air Force staff flew out on a C-141 yesterday – also taking leave of Christchurch and their involvement with the Antarctic programme.' Inference being that we're totally abandoning federal involvement with McMurdo and Scott, or the entire continent?

[shaggy eel]

The C-141s had been replaced by the newer, larger and more comfortable C-17 aircraft.

,,, read it slower.