C-130 Hercules landing

This shows the C-130 Hercules landing at the geographic South Pole. There’s nothing but snow there, so the airplane is fine to land on the strip that is kind of knocked down by tractors to compress the snow a little bit. But it brings up a whole cloud of snow when the turboprop reverses its engines....

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Hercules
South Pole
South pole
Online Access:http://cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:80/cdm/ref/collection/antartica/id/23
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spelling ftuwashingtonlib:oai:cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:antartica/23 2023-05-15T18:21:59+02:00 C-130 Hercules landing http://cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:80/cdm/ref/collection/antartica/id/23 unknown zolantarc18 http://cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:80/cdm/ref/collection/antartica/id/23 ftuwashingtonlib 2017-12-31T16:12:15Z This shows the C-130 Hercules landing at the geographic South Pole. There’s nothing but snow there, so the airplane is fine to land on the strip that is kind of knocked down by tractors to compress the snow a little bit. But it brings up a whole cloud of snow when the turboprop reverses its engines. And the plane almost disappears in the snow, and then taxis back out. Other/Unknown Material South pole University of Washington, Seattle: Digital Collections Hercules ENVELOPE(161.450,161.450,-77.483,-77.483) South Pole
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description This shows the C-130 Hercules landing at the geographic South Pole. There’s nothing but snow there, so the airplane is fine to land on the strip that is kind of knocked down by tractors to compress the snow a little bit. But it brings up a whole cloud of snow when the turboprop reverses its engines. And the plane almost disappears in the snow, and then taxis back out.
title C-130 Hercules landing
spellingShingle C-130 Hercules landing
title_short C-130 Hercules landing
title_full C-130 Hercules landing
title_fullStr C-130 Hercules landing
title_full_unstemmed C-130 Hercules landing
title_sort c-130 hercules landing
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South Pole
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South Pole
genre South pole
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