Pilot makes first NVG Antarctic landing
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From CNN - A U.S. Air Force pilot has landed a plane in Antarctica in the
dark for the first time using night-vision goggles, a feat that could lead
to more supply flights to scientific bases in the frozen continent during
its dark winter months, officials said Friday.
The C-17 Globemaster cargo airplane landed in a driving snowstorm on the
10-kilometer (six mile) ice runway at the U.S. Antarctic research center
at McMurdo Station, after months of practice runs by pilots using the
goggles.
Can NVG's see through a driving snow storm?
Graham
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