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2021-11-24 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Incredible moment pilot becomes the first to land an Airbus A340 on ANTARCTICA

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Posted by Skidmark 2021-11-24 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 ..Humans are really weird.

Posted by Procopius2k 2021-11-24 07:07|| 2021-11-24 07:07|| Front Page Top

#2

All I am thinking about is ICE, landing at 140+ miles p/hr. and how far the plane slid.

Note: I had a buddy that did a Winter-Over in McMurdo Station and saw a loaded C-17 doing it.

Posted by NN2N1 2021-11-24 07:36|| 2021-11-24 07:36|| Front Page Top

#3 There was a rescue flight in winter too. One of the scientists needed a medevac.

Posted by Procopius2k 2021-11-24 07:48|| 2021-11-24 07:48|| Front Page Top

#4 ^
Procopius2k
was that in 1996 when a guy went bananas and attacked a bunch of people with a hammer?

Posted by NN2N1 2021-11-24 07:58|| 2021-11-24 07:58|| Front Page Top

#5 Meanwhile, the USAF is resurrecting an old project, sort of: they are in talks w/Japan’s civil aviation about putting floats on a C-130 for special ops. Years back Lockheed (pre-merger days) floated (bad pun, not sorry) a flying boat version of the Herc to the DoD. This latest go-round has floats attached to the struts so it is convertible between land and sea. Not a true amphibian. Picture shows 2 floats about the size of Rhode Island.

Posted by USN, Ret. 2021-11-24 08:29|| 2021-11-24 08:29|| Front Page Top

#6 #4 - No that was with Kurt Russell and Wilford Brimley

Posted by Frank G 2021-11-24 08:48|| 2021-11-24 08:48|| Front Page Top

#7 There was a rescue flight in winter too.

Doctor rescued from Antarctica in 1999 dies at 57

Posted by Skidmark 2021-11-24 09:38|| 2021-11-24 09:38|| Front Page Top

#8 'the colder the better' is true only to a certain point

when it gets really cold and stays cold, the tires on the plane freeze and crack, in addition various hinges freeze shut, etc.

Posted by Lord Garth 2021-11-24 10:35|| 2021-11-24 10:35|| Front Page Top

#9 Gonna load up some fungi from Yuggoth?

Posted by swksvolFF 2021-11-24 10:51|| 2021-11-24 10:51|| Front Page Top

#10 Bet they kept those engines running the whole time they were there. Jet Engines do not like starting when they're cold. That's why you almost always see prop planes at those latitudes.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2021-11-24 16:16|| 2021-11-24 16:16|| Front Page Top

#11 At the Pole the don't turn off the engines--I'm told they have to keep the fuel from congealing. Warming it up with a fire under the wing isn't something they like doing.

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