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Two huge Hercules aircraft took off from Quonset Point, R.I., and reached the U.S. staging base at Christchurch, New Zealand, the following day. Flights from Christchurch to McMurdo have been made with almost monoto nous regularity for the past eight years -but only in the sunlit months from December to...
Frozen Beards. At McMurdo, men had worked all day under the ghostly lunar light extending the snowy runway to 10,000 ft. On the strip, oil drums were set alight to make a landing flare path, and New Zealand's nearby Scott Base turned on all its lights as...
Dog Sleds v. Tractors. In December and January, the Antarctic midsummer, icebreakers plow channels through the frozen sea for Navy supply ships, and McMurdo is almost as busy as the Brooklyn Navy Yard. To support a population that reaches 3,500 at summer's height and will include 120...
Though the German Defense Ministry had already decided to order 110 Transalls, Lockheed nevertheless set up a special sales command post in Bonn and prevailed on a majority of the members of the Bundestag defense committee to vote against granting Transall funds and to call for a flying competition between...
Having delivered more than 200 P104 Starfighters to the Luftwaffe, Lockheed saw its program coming to an end in Germany, and was anxious to sell the Germans something else-its C-130 Hercules transport, one model of which the company had specially revamped to fit certain German requirements. All that...