Aircraft Illustrated 1973-03

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Название: Aircraft Illustrated

Номер: 03

Год: 1973

Автор: Коллектив авторов

Издательство: Ian Allan Ltd

Страниц: 25

Формат: PDF в RAR

Размер: 52,7 Мб

Качество: Хорошее

Язык: Английский

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TWO Royal Air Force Hercules transport aircraft based at RAF Lyneham, returned to their Wiltshire base on Wednesday, December 20, after a month long detachment to barren Antarctica, where both aircraft successfully carried out 20 resupply sorties for a group of scientists. It was a month, too, where both crews were to take part in history—and drama-making episodes during the exercise—code-named Deep Freeze—which operated between Christchurch, New Zealand and McMurdo Sound, about 2 500 miles to the south. Squadron Leader Collin Quaife and his 36 Squadron crew completed what is believed to be the first training flight by an RAF aircraft around the true South Pole, following the route taken from Scott's hut at McMurdo by Captain Robert Falcon Scott and his ill-fated party in 1911. After their flight, in the crystal clear skies, the crew logged: "We now fully appreciate the tremendous journey undertaken by that great British explorer."

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