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Old September 13th 08, 01:58 PM posted to aus.aviation,rec.aviation.piloting,rec.aviation.military
Dan[_12_]
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Default Pilot makes first NVG Antarctic landing

TacAN wrote:
"Ned" wrote in message ...
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



Antarctica gets very little snow which makes me wonder what CNN's
definition of blizzard would be.

Dan, U.S. Air Force, retired