纽约第 109 空运联队为格陵兰任务做准备

第 109 空降联队驾驶这架飞机,这是世界上最大的飞机,配备了可在冰雪上降落的滑雪板,在纽约冬季在南极洲和夏季在格陵兰岛为美国科学研究进行补给任务。

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Three LC-130 Hercules “Skibirds” and approximately 75 Airmen from the New York Air National Guard’s 109th Airlift Wing will tr​​avel for Greenland at the end of April to support National Science Foundation research.The 109th AW flies the aircraft, the largest in the world equipped with skis to land on snow and ice, to conduct resupply missions for American scientific research in Antarctica when it is winter in New York and in Greenland during the夏季月份。在2021年,机翼的飞行员载有130万磅的货物和32,000加仑的燃料,并运送了910名乘客到格陵兰的科学站。他们总共飞了678小时。

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