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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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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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. |
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C-130 Hercules landing |
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C-130 Hercules landing |
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C-130 Hercules landing |
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ENVELOPE(161.450,161.450,-77.483,-77.483) |
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Hercules South Pole |
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South pole |
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