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Post by mickywest on Nov 20, 2023 21:19:18 GMT
, A Norse Airways 787 Dreamliner recently flew from Cape Town, South Africa to Troll airfield,a Norwegian research base in Queen Maud Land, Antartica with 45 assengers and 12 tons of supplies (and fuel for the return flight!!) www.eurasiantimes.com/2-years-after-airbus-340-boeings-787-dreamliner-operated-by/?ampNote the Norse crew Antarctic survival clothing. So it seems EROPS/ETOPS rules make such a 5 hour over-water flight commercially possible Note the improvised lower-deck pallet loading equipment....steady on the clutch, driver! A Portuguese Hi-Fly A-340 (4 engines) had visited Antarctica 2 years earlier ( also carrying it own return fuel), with a repeat in 2022 and in early November 2023...they quote a fare of $14,500 f0r a 'day-trip' ( 5 hours each way) or $104, 000 for a multi night inclusive stay
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Post by mickywest on Nov 26, 2023 15:26:34 GMT
Further reading c/o Yahoo News at uk.news.yahoo.com/9-passenger-airliners-landed-antarcticas-100003408.htmlThe Boeing 757 has visited Antarctica....RNZAF example in 2009 And in 2015 a Loftleidir 757 from Punta Arenas, Chile landed at the Union Glacier Camp, Antarctica In 2021 Loftleidir used a 767-300 to the Troll airstrip In 2019/2020 Titan Airways flew a charter to the Russian Novolazaremskaya airstrip in a Boeng 767 from Cape Town, South Africa t PrivatAir have flown to Antarctica with the Boeing 737-700 BBJ HB-JJA? And SmartWings have operated the 737MAX down there In March 2020 the Australian Antarctic Division flew a medevac mission positioning from Hobart, Tasman to the American McMurdo Sound base to get an Amercan citizen into hospital in Christchurch, New Zealand Attachments:
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Post by Phixer on Nov 26, 2023 20:19:34 GMT
"These aircraft land on one of the several unpaved runways scattered across the continent, which are typically made of hard blue ice ..." There must be an awful lot of leaking toilets! I thought that problem had been solved.
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Post by mickywest on Nov 26, 2023 21:15:39 GMT
😀 Ha! ...Good one, I missed that! 😀 Yes the partially prepared and levelled hard ice runways allow a wide range of turbine Transports to operate in Antarctica
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Post by mickywest on Nov 27, 2023 22:38:59 GMT
Back to the beginning.....the first aviators over Antarctica were the Australians Wilkins and Eielson in a Lockheed Vega flying from Deception Island in the Southern Shetlands in 1928
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Post by mickywest on Jan 12, 2024 20:51:25 GMT
The American aviator /explorer Richard E Byrd took a Fokker Super Universal to Antarctica in1929
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Post by mickywest on Jan 12, 2024 21:03:40 GMT
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Post by mickywest on Jan 13, 2024 18:04:03 GMT
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Post by mickywest on Jan 13, 2024 18:44:39 GMT
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Post by mickywest on Jan 14, 2024 13:07:01 GMT
After WWII there was a scramble to explore and lay claim to territory in Antarctica. The USA launched the massively supported Operation Highjump in August 1946 for the Antarctic summer of 1946-1947 ( thus Byrd's 4th Antarctic Expedition) many links at antarctican.org MGM film' The Secret Land' youtu.be/kbwszXc5G5s?si=KH47iM35Eyq58mn1 this was edited from US Navy colour film footage archived ar NARA e.g. catalog.archives.gov/id/81365 PBMs after Sikorsky crash by ship ! catalog.archives.gov/id/80764 PBMs but many shots out of focus! The PBM Mariners were based on USS Pine Island with one lost overboard in a storm in the Southern Ocean The wreckage of PBM Mariner 'George I' on the Ice-cap....3 crew members were lost in the crash and the pilot later lost both arms and legs to frostbite Six JATO and ski-equipped Douglas R4Ds were flown off the carrier Phillipine Sea when close enough to the Antarctic Ice Shelf
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Post by mickywest on Jan 14, 2024 15:53:40 GMT
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Post by mickywest on Jan 14, 2024 18:14:53 GMT
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Post by mickywest on Feb 8, 2024 18:58:48 GMT
The Soviet Union and later Russia had a strong interest in Antarctica
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Post by mickywest on Feb 9, 2024 16:27:13 GMT
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