After weeks of planning, a RAAF C-17 Globemaster has completed a 10,000-kilometre mission to Antarctica to drop off essential cargo to expeditioners who were left with limited supplies after a recent voyage by Australia's icebreaker didn't go to plan.
After weeks of planning, a RAAF C-17 Globemaster has completed a 10,000-kilometre mission to Antarctica to drop off essential cargo at Mawson Station.
For the past seven-and-a-half hours, a C-17 Globemaster has been tracking south-west en route to Mawson Station.Then, once the plane reaches the drop zone, expeditioners on the ground are given a sight to behold. "It looks easy as it comes out of the sky, but there's four to six weeks of planning," Ms Yannopoulous said.
From there, the C-17 jetted to RAAF Base Pearce in Western Australia to await the all-clear for the final leg of the operation. "We do have bunks on the aircraft, and we have extra crew, so we can rotate them through the cockpit so that everyone's well rested for the critical components of the mission."But even before the plane made it Antarctica, the crew had to undertake a separate challenge in air space high over the Southern Ocean.
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