Well, let's think that through. The pics were shot in the late 70's! Does bring up a great point however. Navigation when flying down there back then was very difficult. The C-130's were equipped with a special nav system that had been optimized for polar use. It seems that conventional (then) navaids (LORAN) did not work, primarily because support infrastructure did not exist. The experimental system we used was a prototype inertial nav system. However, it required constant updates. The problem with that was that the system to do that did not work very well ! Many a flight was started using the nav system and it would fail half way there. That's ok on a 200 mile trip, but Antarctica is a HUGE continent and many flights were 12 to 14 hours at 280 knots, baring winds. I gained a lot of respect for the pilots and flight crews back then, believe me.
Walt On 3/19/08, jim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > nice pics. > The most important thing i want to know. did you do the geocache while you > were at the south pole?? > > James -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
