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Post by jesse on Oct 26, 2011 8:16:08 GMT -5
8-)Polar Angel: A C-17 aircrew from JB Lewis-McChord, Wash., flew the second leg of a harrowing mission to evacuate a researcher in urgent need of medical attention from the Amundsen-Scott South Station at the South Pole. A ski-equipped Turbo DC-3 flew the patient from the South Pole to McMurdo Station, Antarctica, for her transfer to the Globemaster. "The hard part was getting her out of the South Pole," said C-17 loadmaster CMSgt. James Masura of Air Force Reserve Command's 446th Operations Group. The Lewis-McChord aircrew, comprised of airmen from the 62nd Airlift Wing and AFRC's 446th AW, shuttled the National Science Foundation contractor to Christchurch, New Zealand, for advanced treatment during the Oct. 17 mission. The woman suffered a likely stroke in August, and has been stranded since by weather, reported the Associated Press (via the UK Daily Mail). While C-17s can airdrop over the pole, they do not have the capability to land there, noted Masura. (McChord-Lewis report by 2nd. Lt. Denise Hauser)
A Basler, no doubt...
Jesse
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Post by Johan Dees on Oct 26, 2011 11:12:01 GMT -5
Haha, DC3's still in the running!
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Post by ross on Oct 26, 2011 11:51:07 GMT -5
Hello Jesse... a couple of weeks back we saw Polar 5 and Polar 6 in Muskoka, Ontario of all places..'bout an hour north of here. It was by accident on one of those "let's just drive by the airport and see what's there" diversions. It seems they were there having equipment installed and Jim from Lake Central Air Service said they were leaving next day for Germany then to Antarctica. Maybe one of them was involved in the angel flight. By the way...they were IMMACULATE. Not a bug or splash of dirt anywhere! Looked factory new. Jim mentioned also that Polar 5 was first put together in 1947. Took some photos...sorry the red is a liitle washed out from a bad setting. I have more from a quick walk-around too.   Cheers Ross |
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Post by sunny9850 on Oct 26, 2011 12:00:13 GMT -5
Lovely girls....the airplanes included  The turbo three seems to very proudly hold her nose up and say to the world " relic, museum piece ...pah I can do anything one of them new fangled plastic birds can and then some" Stefan |
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Post by jesse on Oct 26, 2011 16:40:07 GMT -5
Yep, the old ladies still hold their heads high.
I was 12 years old when the first of the DC-3s rolled off the line at the old Douglas plant in California.
Jesse
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