Experimental Hose Line for Fuel Transport over Deep Snow.

• Main Author: Hoffman,C. R.
• Other Authors: CIVIL ENGINEERING LAB (NAVY) PORT HUENEME CALIF
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1974
• Subjects: Pumps; Filters; Pipes; Tubing; Fittings & Vlvs; *REFUELING; *ANTARCTIC REGIONS; *PIPELINES; FUEL HOSES; ICE; SNOW; SUSPENSION DEVICES; TOWERS; COLD WEATHER TESTS; Antarctic; McMurdo Ice Shelf; McMurdo Station; Williams Field; Antarc*; Ice Shelf
• Online Access: http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/AD0782582; http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=AD0782582

Resupply of the inland Antarctic stations requires the transport of more than 3,000,000 gallons of aircraft and diesel fuel from storage at McMurdo Station to the Williams Field Air Facility 3.5 miles away. In November 1971, the Naval Civil Engineering Laboratory constructed in this area an experime...