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Video of My Landing on Antarctica
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<blockquote data-quote="RED2003COBRA" data-source="post: 6264329" data-attributes="member: 15597"><p>I wouldn't say it's any smoother than any other surface. The packed snow actually vibrates the plane pretty good in my experience. The spoilers will pop up to kill the wings lift. You can see them pop up in the video when the mains touch the ground. The thrust reversers deploy to slow us down by directing thrust forward. In the video, you can hear me yank the throttles back into idle and the engines venting the compressed air much like a waste gate. After a couple seconds in idle, the throttles can be brought into reverse thrust to slow the airplane down. There's no ice flex with Pegasus runway since the ice is 200 ft thick there. The seasonal runway that is built right next to McMurdo is on only 8 ft thick of ice. The landing aircraft actually creates a wave in the ice much like on that show Ice Truckers on discovery channel. They are very careful about operations on the seasonal runway and shut it down once the ice starts flexing too much.</p><p></p><p>Lance</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RED2003COBRA, post: 6264329, member: 15597"] I wouldn't say it's any smoother than any other surface. The packed snow actually vibrates the plane pretty good in my experience. The spoilers will pop up to kill the wings lift. You can see them pop up in the video when the mains touch the ground. The thrust reversers deploy to slow us down by directing thrust forward. In the video, you can hear me yank the throttles back into idle and the engines venting the compressed air much like a waste gate. After a couple seconds in idle, the throttles can be brought into reverse thrust to slow the airplane down. There's no ice flex with Pegasus runway since the ice is 200 ft thick there. The seasonal runway that is built right next to McMurdo is on only 8 ft thick of ice. The landing aircraft actually creates a wave in the ice much like on that show Ice Truckers on discovery channel. They are very careful about operations on the seasonal runway and shut it down once the ice starts flexing too much. Lance [/QUOTE]
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